Kathryn Hulme
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Kathryn Hulme (January 6, 1900 - 1981). Author of The Nun's Story (1956) the best selling novel later made into an award winning movie starring Audrey Hepburn (1959) and The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure (Little, Brown & Co. Boston USA/Toronto CA, 1967) reprinted (Natural Bridge Editions: Lexington MA, 1997) (ISBN 1-891218-03-4) a description of her years as a student of G. I. Gurdjieff. 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.
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- Gurdjieff and Hulme
- The Kathryn Hulme Papers at Yale University