Donald Spoto, Borup, Denmark, received his PhD from Fordham University, USA, in 1971. He is the author of twenty-nine books published in more than twenty-six languages.
Teresa Wright projected a kind of gentle incandescence and,
simultaneously, a tacit, unyielding strength. She was a real actor
who could conjure both a glowing sympathy and a winning
toughness--qualities that are unforgettable in the great Hitchcock
classic Shadow of a Doubt, to name but one of her many enduring
achievements. Donald Spoto's revelations about the woman's stunning
and tragic family history make it all the more apparent that she
was an artist with an extraordinary gift for transcendence.--Mart
Crowley, playwright, The Boys in the Band
Teresa Wright's long career is lovingly recreated in this warm and
revealing biography that is a tribute to her art and a record of
her longtime friendship with the author. A Girl's Got To Breathe is
one of Donald Spoto's most insightful and personal biographies and
a portrait of an artist who can truly be called a 'working
actress.'--Bernard F. Dick, author of The Screen Is Red: Hollywood,
Communism, and the Cold War
A Girl's Got To Breathe is as much memoir as biography, but the
intimacy works. Wright's talent and yearnings come alive on the
page.--Scott Eyman "Wall Street Journal"
In between the standard celebrity-bio synopsis of every one of
Wright's roles, prolific entertainment biographer Spoto (The
Redgraves, 2012) creates a respectable study of a woman who may not
have realized the happiness she desired in her personal life, but
whose professional accomplishments cannot be denied. A worthwhile
read for fans of Hollywood's Golden Age.--Carol Haggas
"Booklist"
Prolific celebrity biographer Spoto (The Redgraves: A Family Epic)
paints an engaging and intimate portrait of Oscar-winning actor
Teresa Wright. Her notable film roles included Shadow of a Doubt,
The Best Years of Our Lives, and The Pride of the Yankees, in which
she improvised her famous line, 'A girl's gotta breathe!', after
receiving a lengthy on-screen kiss from costar Gary Cooper. . . .
[Spoto] depicts Wright as a unique and hardworking talent who shied
away from the spotlight. As he describes her, she embodied the
buoyant and determined spirit of mid-twentieth-century America, and
her fresh-faced beauty was warmly embraced by contemporary
audiences.-- "Publishers Weekly"
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