A couple of months ago, I posted here about the late actress Judy Holliday, born Judith Tuvim. Anyway, now I've read a biography of her. Will Holtzman's Judy Holliday was published twenty-four years ago and is now out of print. If you want to read it, though, check at your local library for it. I found it here at Brooklyn's Central Library, so it's still around to some extent. It contains good writing, and some fascinating insights into her odd upbringing. She was an only child in a working-class Jewish, intellectual family of early 20th Century New York City, the grandchild and child of parents and grandparents active in art, literature, theater and leftist politics. Not that there weren't a lot of leftist parents in New York during that era, but Judith Tuvim was doted on incessantly by her divorced parents, her grandmother, her childless uncles and other family members--she was the only kid they had. To a large extent, this same excessive attention continued for the rest of her life. (Interesting tidbit: She attended the all-girls Julia Richman High School in Manhattan with the mystery writer-to-be, Patricia Highsmith. They worked together on their school literary magazines and were friends.)