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Bly 
“...a fast-paced account of Hurst's life as a celebrity author, though it aspires to be a high-minded biography.”
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Carla Kaplan
“Kroeger's Hurst not only engages our attention as an interesting and famous woman at the center of the political and cultural life of her time but also provokes larger psychological and social questions . . . What Kroeger accomplishes by making her often vexing subject important again is a triumph in itself.“
THE ATLANTIC, Phoebe-Lou Adams
“Kroeger reconstructs Hurst's life in great detail, along with the plots of stories and the casts of the films based on them, and, more interesting, gives a thorough explanation of the rivalries and piracies of magazine editors in the days when reading was the only entertainment regularly and widely available.”
NEWSDAY, Wendy Smith
“Brooke Kroeger makes it her business to recapture for contemporary readers Hurst's prominent place in American popular culture, limning a busy life in a enjoyable narrative. Kroeger prefers to illuminate her subject's significance and personality primarily through quotations and brief comments, an approach that can be frustratingly elliptical, but the unpretentious, readable text partly justifies the author's decision to eschew extended analysis.”
THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, Susan Koppelman
“Kroeger does not take advantage of her role as first biographer to impose interpretations that will forever have to be addressed by future biographers. Having assembled the facts and unraveled the prejudices and mythologies about her subject's life, she weaves a layered and engaging yarn that should bring Hurst the serious new attention she deserves.”
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