JEWELS THAT SPEAK

Tiffanys, Freuds, and Me

Biography & Memoir, Historical
Cover of the book JEWELS THAT SPEAK by Lynn Burlingham, Gatekeeper Press
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Author: Lynn Burlingham ISBN: 9781642371895
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press Publication: May 4, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Lynn Burlingham
ISBN: 9781642371895
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Publication: May 4, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

This moving memoir relates Lynn Burlingham’s battle for her own identity as child, teen and adult amid the influence of her famous extended family: great-grandfathers Louis Comfort Tiffany and Charles Culp Burlingham; grandmother Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham; grandfather Einar Håkon Sørensen; uncle George F. Kennan; and Anna Freud, her grandmother’s colleague, companion and confidant, and her father’s psychiatrist. 

"An engaging read and an enticing peek into the secret lives of two celebrated families." –Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Lynn Burlingham was a finalist for the Delacorte Prize, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was a 2014 Kansas Notable Book Award author. She has an MA from Columbia University’s Teachers College and has taught creative writing to junior high students, as well as developing and leading programs for gifted students. She grew up in New York and London and now lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Lynn is passionate about books, chocolate, nature, and writing.

“The Freuds, the Tiffanys, and Me,”
the opening chapter of Jewels That Speak,
was published in a slightly different form
in the winter 2012 issue of New Letters

“Nature’s Beauty Lingers” and “Uncle George” originally appeared
in The Great Plains Writers Group, Echoes from the Prairie (2013)

The Starlings in London, a novel, was published in 2016

Lynn's website is https://lynnburlingham.com/

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This moving memoir relates Lynn Burlingham’s battle for her own identity as child, teen and adult amid the influence of her famous extended family: great-grandfathers Louis Comfort Tiffany and Charles Culp Burlingham; grandmother Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham; grandfather Einar Håkon Sørensen; uncle George F. Kennan; and Anna Freud, her grandmother’s colleague, companion and confidant, and her father’s psychiatrist. 

"An engaging read and an enticing peek into the secret lives of two celebrated families." –Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Lynn Burlingham was a finalist for the Delacorte Prize, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was a 2014 Kansas Notable Book Award author. She has an MA from Columbia University’s Teachers College and has taught creative writing to junior high students, as well as developing and leading programs for gifted students. She grew up in New York and London and now lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Lynn is passionate about books, chocolate, nature, and writing.

“The Freuds, the Tiffanys, and Me,”
the opening chapter of Jewels That Speak,
was published in a slightly different form
in the winter 2012 issue of New Letters

“Nature’s Beauty Lingers” and “Uncle George” originally appeared
in The Great Plains Writers Group, Echoes from the Prairie (2013)

The Starlings in London, a novel, was published in 2016

Lynn's website is https://lynnburlingham.com/

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