Review: Diana of the Dunes: The True Story of Alice Gray by Janet Zenke Edwards

Title: Diana of the Dunes: The True Story of Alice Gray
Author: Janet Zenke Edwards
Publisher: History Press
Publication Date: July 1, 2010
Edition: ebook (163 pages)
Genres:

• Nonfiction
• Biography

My Rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the story of Alice Gray, a Chicago woman, who left her life there and moved to the sand dunes of Indiana, in 1915, to live a mostly solitary life in an abandoned fisherman's shack. She died there in 1925. The media reported her story with a relentlessness that both confounded and angered her. So much so that she took legal action which she did not live to see completed.

I had never heard of Alice Gray until I read this book. I read it because I've long been interested in people who make the choice to live a solitary life. I found it interesting and well written. A good read.