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Mel Gibson in
The Man without a Face |
Isabelle Holland, who wrote a number of romantic suspense novels as well as children's books and created Episcopal priest-sleuth
Claire Aldington, was born today in Basel, Switzerland, in 1920. Holland also worked for publishers such as Crown, Lippincott, and Putnam in publicity; at Lippincott, she was responsible for the publicity for Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird and became a friend of Lee's. She died in 2002.
Aldington appears in
A Death at St. Anselm's (1984),
Flight of the Archangel (1985),
A Lover Scorned (1986),
A Fatal Advent (1989), and
The Long Search (1990). Holland's
The Man without a Face (1972) was adapted as a 1993 film with Mel Gibson.
