Creator
LOUISE BROOKS
Title
Naked on My Goat
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Scribner’s
Date
1954
Subject
Burned by the author.
Description
Brooks, an American actress and international movie star, never achieved the same success in her home country and in her mid-thirties withdrew to a life of alcohol and high-end prostitution. Brooks was bright and well-read, and during this period she wrote this tell-all memoir. The title she took from the speech of the Young Witch in the Walpurgisnacht scene of Goethe’s Faust, a speech delivered in the eponymous condition. She later incinerated the manuscript.
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