2: Biographer BARBARA LEAMING. She's written a new biography of Katharine Hepburn, in which she places the actress' life in the context of her family's history: one of tragic and political importance. Katherine Hepburn's grandfather committed suicide, as did her brother. In fact Hepburn discovered the body of her 15 year old brother. Hepburn's mother was a major figure in the radical suffrage movement, and a friend of Margaret Sanger. Katharine Hepburn is published by Crown. Leaming is also the author of a biography of Orson Welles.
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