The Lost Diary of M, Paul Wolfe
The Lost Diary of M, Paul Wolfe
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The Lost Diary of M
A Novel

Author: Paul Wolfe

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/25/2020


Synopsis

An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer— secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer, LSD explorer and early feminist living by her own rules.She was a longtime lover of JFK.She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post’s Ben Bradlee.She believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary. She was a painter, a socialite and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War.And she ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK’s assassination.The diary she kept was never found.Until now. . . .

About Paul Wolfe

Paul Wolfe has been an architect, songwriter and multiple-award-winning writer in advertising.  He currently lives in New York City.


Reviews

First thank you to Paul Wolfe and Harper Collins for an e-ARC copy of the book in exchange for an honest opinion of the book. Why am I not surprised I have never heard of Mary Pinchot, I don't think it is because I was born in 1959 so I was young when Kennedy was shot but we never hear about the wome......more

Goodreads review by Mal

On October 12, 1964, a prominent Washington socialite named Mary Pinchot Meyer was shot to death on the towpath along the C&O Canal in storied Georgetown. An African-American man spotted there was arrested for her murder, but no compelling evidence ever surfaced to support his conviction, and he was......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

I was born in 1960 and I had never even heard of Mary Pinchot Meyer until I read this book. It is written as a fictional diary (not the actual diary of Ms. Meyer), which I thought was an interesting and fresh idea. It seems that Ms. Pinchot was a "wild child" at heart. She used drugs and was very fr......more