The Loveliest Woman in America A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home

New York: William Morrow, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, uncorrected proof. Softcover 8vo, 335pp. Near fine with slight crease to the upper corner of the rear of the textblock. With warm note from the author to Matthew Bruccoli, written on a decorative card and loosely inserted.  Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. SIGNED PROOF COPY.