She has the reputation for telling all, at least where her subjects are concerned: what they’re wearing, what they’re drinking, how far they’ve come since being found at a soda fountain on the corner of Hollywood and Vine. She has been dubbed a psycho-journalist for her ability to cut through the usual cheery veneer of celebrities and get to the personal grit. What propels famous women into their orbit, what is behind their success, and what are the obstacles they had to overcome: in these interviews Marian Christy’s remarkable talent for finding the motor and spark behind famous women’s success. Here, Yoko Ono speaks of prejudice, Alice Walter on heroines, Maya Angelou on transcendence, Diana Vreeland on pizazz, Mrs. Anwar Sadat on widowhood. The list goes on. This is a remarkably courageous, inspiring series of interviews with women discussing difficulties that are common to women everywhere.
Marian Christy is well-known for her syndicated column "Conversations" that ran in the Boston Globe. The column delivered far more than a classic interview—Christy ventured into the emotional world of her subjects. Most impressive is Christy’s talent to get famous women to reveal their truest feelings, their emotions, their attitudes, their motivations, and she does this much in the same way a psychiatrist would. The resulting essays are unfailing human reflections of self, which in total, are reflections not only of the interviewee, but the people around us and the world in which we live.
