August Break

by Edith Heal

Lila Alison and Martin O'Brien, two of Dr. Tristam's patients, try to hold on to their emotional stability while Tristam, their psychologist, takes his yearly vacation

144 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1984

About the author

Edith Ailene Heal was an educator and author. Sh received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1925, and began her career as a copywriter in the advertising department of Marshall Field & Co. She moved to Sears Roebuck & Co., and then, in 1935, to the Tucson Daily Citizen. In 1944, she married and changed her name to Edith H. Meynier, and became Copy Chief at Conde Nast Publications in New York City.

Meynier received her M.A. from Columbia University in 1956, and then took a position as Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford NJ.