Opening book details…
Can I read My secret mother, Lorna Moon on EtoBox?
My secret mother, Lorna Moon by De Mille, Richard, 1922- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is My secret mother, Lorna Moon about?
Richard de Mille was raised in the luxurious eccentricity of Hollywood, as the adopted son of Cecil B. de Mille and his wife, Constance. He continued to wonder about his birth parents, though, particularly given the odd hints that were dropped by people close to his family and his startling physical similarities to his grandfather. After sixty years of of pursuing his secret mother, de Mille now writes the true story of her life and of the perfect conspiracy that made him a full but far from ordinary member of the de Mille family. That lost mother turned out to be Lorna Moon, a newspaper-woman, screenwriter, and bestselling novelist, a woman who had been born in a village in the north-east of Scotland but who had changed her name and built her career to become an exotic figure in the Hollywood of the silent film era. She lived about a mile from the house in which de Mille grew up and had a love affair with his uncle, William, that produced the infant boy who was adopted by Cecil and Constance in 1922. De Mille recalls growing up in the rarefied air of privileged Hollywood with humor and insight, and offers rare, very human inside portraits of the people among whom he was raised. Im
Who reads My secret mother, Lorna Moon?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- De Mille, Richard, 1922-
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374217570
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (14 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by De Mille, Richard, 1922-
Browse all works by De Mille, Richard, 1922-
Similar books
- My Secret Mother : Two Different Lives, One Heartbreaking Secret : a Memoir — Phyllis Whitsell (2016)
- The Secret Within : My Mother Myself — Gargaglione-bertoni, Alexandra (2003)
- Promises I Made My Mother — Sam Haskell; David Rensin; Ray Romano (2009)
- My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man (Penguin Modern Classics) — Georges Bataille & Austryn Wainhouse & Yukio Mishima & Ken Hollings (2015)
- Doorways in Drumorty, by Lorna Moon. — Moon, Lorna. (1925)
- The Secret Life of Mother Mary — Marguerite Mary Rigoglioso