Description
Author: Patty Duke with Kenneth Turan
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date of Publication: 1987
Place: Toronto • New York • London • Sydney • Auckland
Edition: First Edition
Format: Hardcover (no dust jacket, as issued or lacking)
Condition: Very Good. Clean, solid copy with light shelf wear to boards; binding tight, pages clean.
ISBN: 9780553054140
Description
A candid and compelling autobiography by Academy Award–winning actress Patty Duke, Call Me Anna is both a Hollywood memoir and a deeply personal account of survival. Duke writes with honesty about her meteoric rise to fame, the pressures of child stardom, and her lifelong struggle with mental illness—years before bipolar disorder was widely discussed or understood.
Co-written with film critic Kenneth Turan, the book is frank, emotionally resonant, and ahead of its time in addressing mental health with clarity and courage. It remains an important and readable memoir, balancing celebrity narrative with vulnerability and insight.