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Camera girl [large type] : the coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy / Carl Sferrazza Anthony.

by Anthony, Carl Sferrazza, author.

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[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.

Times-herald (Washington, D.C.)

Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.

Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.

9798885791434 (large print, hardcover)

Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.

679 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Large print edition.

Part I: Eastern seaboard. Getting her camera, May-August 1949 -- Daddy and Mummy, 1929-1948 -- Part II: Europe. A new language, August-October 1949 -- Paris, October-November 1949 -- The "terrific" vacation, November 1949-January 1950 -- Autonomy, January-June 1950 -- Liberté, June-September 1950 -- Part III: Families. East Hampton, September 1950 -- Newport, September-October 1950 -- Part IV: Writing. George Washington University, October-December 1950 -- Last semester, January-March 1951 -- Vogue, April-June 1951 -- Lee, June-September 1951 -- Office clerk, September-December 1951 -- Palm Beach, December 1951 -- Part V: The paper. The blue room, January 1952 -- Out on the street, February 1952 -- Byline, March 1952 -- Working woman, April 1952 -- A second dinner, May-June 1952 -- Part VI: The campaign. Hyannis Port, July 1952 -- Summer in the city, August-September 1952 -- Massachusetts, October-November 1952 -- Palm Beach, II, November-December 1952 -- Inauguration, January 1953 -- Part VII: Courtship. Love and sex, February 1953 -- Meeting of the minds, March 1953 -- The Vietnam report, March-April 1953 -- Dating, April-May 1953 -- Coronation, May-June 1953 -- Engagement, June 1953 -- Partner, July-September 1953.

"An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie's years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream of becoming a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the book recounts in heretofore unrevealed detail the story of her late college years and her early adulthood as a working woman. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was the Washington Times-Herald's "Inquiring Camera Girl," posing compelling questions to members of the public on the streets of DC and snapping their photos with her unwieldy Graflex camera. She then fashioned the results into a daily column, of which six hundred were published. Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a historian and leading expert on First Ladies, draws on these columns and previously unseen archives of Jackie's writings from this time, along with insights gleaned from interviews he conducted with the former First Lady's friends, colleagues, and family members. Camera Girl offers a fresh perspective on the woman later known as Jacqueline Kennedy and Jackie O, introducing us to the headstrong, self-assured young woman who went on to be one of the world's most famous people. It's a glamorous and surprisingly hard-charging story of a person determined to define herself, told with admiration, empathy, and journalistic rigor"--Provided by publisher.

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