HEPBURN, Katharine [Johnny Carson].

Me: Stories of My Life.

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased": First edition of Me: Stories of My Life; inscribed by Katharine Hepburn to Johnny Carson and Signed Three Times by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

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First edition of Katharine Hepburn's revealing autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 165 photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Johnny Carson, "For Johnny with affection and gratitude Katharine Hepburn." Johnny Carson was an television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson received six Primetime Emmy Awards, the Television Academy's 1980 Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993. Additionally signed three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the front free endpaper and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson and Chip Kidd. An exceptional association.

Throwing aside her performing personality, Hepburn here reveals the person behind the persona in a vivid, unforgettable self-portrait that takes readers back to her childhood, to her early days in New York and Hollywood, through the ups and downs of her career, into the sanctuaries of her private life, and into her close collaboration with many of the leading actors, directors, and producers of the past several decades.