About the Author

Patty Duke(1946-2016) was a true show business legend whose career spanned six decades.Her Oscar win for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Workermade her, at the time, the youngest Academy Award winner. Shealso entered the history books as the youngest person to have a show bearing her full name, withThe Patty Duke Show, on which she played genetically unexplainable identical cousins.In addition to her acting, she became the second woman ever elected president of the Screen Actors Guild.

Gloria Hochmanis an award-winning journalist andNew York Timesbestselling author. Her works includeABrilliant Madness- Living with Manic-Depressive Illness and The Age for Change. Shehas published hundreds of articles for The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, where she continues to write for the newspaper's Health and Science section; Newsweek; Ladies'Home Journal; Psychology Today, Reader's Digest, and Science Digest. She also has reviewed books forThe New York Times.

Reviews

"A groundbreaking guide for those who are manic depressive of who live with or love someone who is."--Publishers Weekly