Painted Shadow, The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-suppressed Truth about Her Influence on His Genius

The first biography of Vivienne Eliot, the first wife of poet T. S. Eliot, offers a remarkable portrait of a neurotic, lonely, and distraught woman who was abandoned by her husband and confined to a mental asylum but whose tormented marriage became the source and subject of some of Eliot's most acclaimed works, including The Waste Land.