All About Eileen

by Ruth McKenney, H. Lawrence Hoffman (Illustrator)

The legend of Eileen and her sister which took the literary, then the dramatic, and finally the motion picture worlds by storm over twenty years ago has continued to grow and develop. In each succeeding book Ruth McKenney has added to the colorful lore about Eileen, who is undoubtedly one of the major humorous characters in modern literature. Beatrice Sherman, writing in The New York Times Book Review, said of My Sister Eileen: "Readers will feel inclined to follow the girls around to see what happens next, or more politely beg for more of their adventures."

Now Ruth McKenney has selected all of the Eileen material from her four major books and added a number of additional anecdotes and stories which have never before appeared in book form. Here in one volume, arranged in chronological order, is the complete Eileen story. In addition, H. Lawrence Hoffman has done numerous illustrations and decorations which add greatly to the attractiveness of the book itself.

283 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

McKenney grew up in Cleveland and attended The Ohio State University. She worked for the Akron Beacon Journal before moving to New York and her job writing for the New York Post.

Her best-selling book My Sister Eileen was originally serialized in The New Yorker. The stories were so popular they were adapted to a play and a Broadway musical called Wonderful Town in 1940.