Keeper of the Flame

by I. A. R. Wylie

Overview

THE WOMAN HE LOVED WAS SWORN TO GUARD THE LEGEND OF THE GREAT LEADER—HE WAS HONOR-BOUND TO DESTROY IT…
The governor of a New England state has died suddenly in an unwitnessed automobile accident. He was the coming man, widely mentioned for the presidency, a champion of the underprivileged, and especially of the younger generation, who had formed Robert Forrest clubs the country over. The shock and the sorrow over his death is nationwide. Steve O'Malley, ace war correspondent, whose passion for truth has got him kicked out of all the warring countries abroad, is at a loose end at home and is assigned by his paper to the job of writing the life of the man as he really was. Disastrously, he falls in love with Forrest's young wife. What he finds, the development of the love affair, the rumble of great events in the background, make a tale of rare intensity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787208834
Publisher:	Valmy Publishing
Publication date:	01/12/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	125
File size:	419 KB

About the Author

Ida Alexa Ross Wylie (16 March 1885 - 4 November 1959), known by her pen name I. A. R. Wylie, was an Australian-British-American novelist, screenwriter, short story writer, and poet who was honored by the journalistic and literary establishments of her time, and was known around the world. Between 1915 and 1953, more than thirty of her novels and stories were adapted into films, including Keeper of the Flame (1942), which was directed by George Cukor and starred Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
Born in 1885 in Melbourne, Australia to Alexander Coghill Wylie from England and Ida Ross, a farmer's daughter from Australia, Wylie moved to London in 1888, where, following the death of her mother, her father's first wife's sister, Christine, became the young Wylie's home school teacher and guardian.
After spending three years in finishing school in Belgium, Wylie first studied in England, and later in Germany, where she also taught and began writing. Wylie's self-education at home meant she spent many hours making up her own stories to fill up time, and, at the age of 19, she sold her first short story to a magazine.
In 1914, Wylie returned to England just prior to WWI and joined the Suffragette movement. She provided a safe house for women who were released from prison where they could recover from hunger strikes without being watched by the police. She struck up a friendship with the editor of "The Suffragette", Rachel Barrett.
Wylie eventually settled in Hollywood where she sold her stories. Over thirty movies were made between 1915-1953 based on her works, including Torch Song (1953) and Phone Call from a Stranger (1952).
She died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1959 at the age of 74.

Born in 1885 in Melbourne, Australia to Alexander Coghill Wylie from England and Ida Ross, a farmer’s daughter from Australia, Wylie moved to London in 1888, where, following the death of her mother, her father’s first wife’s sister, Christine, became the young Wylie’s home school teacher and guardian.
After spending three years in finishing school in Belgium, Wylie first studied in England, and later in Germany, where she also taught and began writing. Wylie’s self-education at home meant she spent many hours making up her own stories to fill up time, and, at the age of 19, she sold her first short story to a magazine.
In 1914, Wylie returned to England just prior to WWI and joined the Suffragette movement. She provided a safe house for women who were released from prison where they could recover from hunger strikes without being watched by the police. She struck up a friendship with the editor of “The Suffragette”, Rachel Barrett.
Wylie eventually settled in Hollywood where she sold her stories. Over thirty movies were made between 1915-1953 based on her works, including Torch Song (1953) and Phone Call from a Stranger (1952).
She died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1959 at the age of 74.