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Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel ''The Nun's Story''. The book is often, mistakenly, understood to be semi-biographical. ==Writing== Her 1956 book ''The Nun's Story'' was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch. Another work, ''The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure'' published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff and her eventual conversion to Catholicism. Hulme studied with Gurdjieff as part of a group of women known as "The Rope", which included eight members in all: Jane Heap, Elizabeth Gordon, Solita Solano, Margaret Caroline Anderson, Louise Davidson and Alice Rohrer, besides them.〔(The Rope ) gurdjieff-legacy.org.〕 She is also the author of ''Wild Place'', a description of her experiences as the UNRRA Director of the Polish Displaced Persons (DP) camp at Wildflecken, Germany, after WWII. This work won the Atlantic Non-Fiction Award in 1952. It was at Wildflecken that Hulme met a Belgian nurse and former nun named Marie Louise Habets, who became her lifelong companion. ''The Nun's Story'' is a slightly fictionalized biographical account of Habets' life as a nun. In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography ''We Lived as Children'', Hulme describes a child's perspective of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathryn Hulme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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