Английская Википедия:Betty Hester
Hazel Elizabeth Hester (June 1, 1923 – December 26, 1998)[1] was an American correspondent of influential twentieth-century writers, including Flannery O'Connor and Iris Murdoch.Шаблон:R Hester wrote several short stories, poems, diaries, and philosophical essays, none of which were published.Шаблон:R
Biography
Hester was born in Rome, Georgia, and attended Young Harris College.Шаблон:R She lived and worked in Atlanta before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1948.[2] After five years in the service she had risen to the rank of technical sergeant[2] and was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany after World War II (Шаблон:Circa 1948–53).Шаблон:R She was discharged as "undesirable" for being a lesbian.[2] After her discharge from the Air Force,Шаблон:R she returned to Georgia.Шаблон:R Hester spent most of her life in a small Midtown Atlanta apartment.Шаблон:R She worked for Atlanta-based Retail Credit Company (Equifax), commuting every day by bus.Шаблон:R She struggled with alcoholism and bouts of depression[2] but kept her sexual orientation a secret except to her closest friends.Шаблон:R
Hester is best known for her nine-year correspondence and friendship with Southern fiction writer Flannery O'Connor.Шаблон:R From 1955 to 1964, Hester and O'Connor exchanged nearly 300 letters, some of which are published in Sally Fitzgerald's 1979 compilation of O'Connor's correspondence, The Habit of Being.Шаблон:R Hester, a very private and reclusive woman, asked that her identity be kept secret in the published letters; thus, she appears as "A".Шаблон:RШаблон:Sfn
Hester first wrote to O'Connor in July 1955,Шаблон:Sfn when O'Connor was working on her second novel, The Violent Bear it Away.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:R Eager to exchange thoughts and ideas with someone of equal intellectual caliber, O'Connor wrote back, "I would like to know who this is who understands my stories."Шаблон:Sfn O'Connor felt that she and Hester shared a spiritual kinship,Шаблон:Sfn and O'Connor would later become Hester's confirmation sponsor in the Catholic Church.Шаблон:Sfn Hester left the Church in 1961Шаблон:Sfn and turned to agnosticism.Шаблон:Citation needed This news was a grave disappointment for O'Connor,[3] who had engaged Hester in theological dialogues and tried to sustain her friend's faith.Шаблон:Citation needed
Hester gave her letters to Emory University in 1987 on the condition that they be sealed for twenty years.Шаблон:R They were released to the public on May 12, 2007.Шаблон:R
Like her mother, Hester died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 26, 1998, in Atlanta, at the age of 75.Шаблон:R
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- ↑ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb: "I don't know anything that could grieve us here like this news. I know that what you do you do because you think it is right, and I don't think any the less of you outside the Church than in it, but what is painful is the realization that this means a narrowing of life for you and a lessening of the desire for life."
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