Kathryn Hulme
Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel "The Nun's Story". The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical. Writing. Her 1956 book "The Nun's Story" was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch. Another work, "The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure" published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff and her eventual conversion to Catholicism. Hulme studied with Gurdjieff as  part of a group of women known as "The Rope," which included eight members in all: Jane Heap, , Solita Solano, Margaret Caroline Anderson, Louise Davidson and Alice Rohrer along with Hulme and Gurdjieff. She is also the author of "Wild Place", a description of her experiences as the UNRRA Director of the Polish Displaced Persons camp at Wildflecken, Germany, after World War II. This work won the Atlantic Non-Fiction Award in 1952. It was at Wildflecken that Hulme met a Belgian nurse and former nun Marie Louise Habets, who became her lifelong companion. "The Nun's Story" is a  slightly fictionalized biographical account of Habets' life as a nun. In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography "We Lived as Children", Hulme describes a child's perspective of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.