O'Neill's Other Daughter

By Cynthia Gallant-Simpson

A work of historical fiction, part memoir, part fact embroidered with threads of conjecture and likely possibilities. An alternate reality that slipped by the historians' scrutiny.When Mary Heaton Vorse, human rights activist, writer, painter and one of the radical thinkers whom she had left behind in Greenwich Village when she chose to raise her children in the tiny fishing village of Provincetown, invited them all to come for the summer of 1915, she could not have imagined the historical impact they would have. Not only on the provincial village where these free thinkers were considered to be "godless, immoral invaders" by the locals, but on American theater, politics, literature and the character of sleepy Cape Cod.Her dear friend, journalist Jack Reed, his mistress Louise Bryant, Susan Glaspell, "Jig" Cook, Djuana Barnes, Emma Goldman, Max Eastman and others took the town by storm. Jack had a weakness for strays. Befriending struggling, alcoholic, womanizer Eugene O'Neill, Jack foolishly not only invited Gene along but to live with him and Louise in their rented house. What could go wrong?Up on a hill overlooking the tiny town and the lovely harbor, a British family was staying for the summer. What happened between teenaged Natalie Thorngood and "the devil O'Neill", "the man who never smiled" remained one man's secret for half a century. You be the judge...is this the only secret of that pivotal summer that was somehow missed by writers, movie makers, journalists and historians whose intense scrutiny led them to believe that nothing escaped their eagle eyes?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1093138416
• ISBN13: 9781093138412
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"