In 1951, she and Habets moved back to the United States, living in Connecticut, Southern California, and, finally, on the Island of Kauai, in Hawaii.Ī keen observer of the world around her, Hulme wrote mostly from her own experiences. Occupied Zone in Germany, where she met Habets, and then helped organize and served as deputy director of Wildflecken, a camp for displaced Poles in Bavaria. From 1945 to 1947, she served as a deputy director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in a U.S. She lived as an expatriate in Paris during the 1930s but returned to the United States at the outbreak of the war, taking a job as a welder in the Kaiser Shipyards. She attended the University of California, Columbia University, and Hunter College before taking her first job as a reporter for the Daily Californian. Hulme was born in San Francisco, California, in 1900. Hulme's book sold 700,000 copies and in 1959 was adapted into a major film starring Audrey Hepburn. Habets served in a mental hospital in Belgium and in a Congo bush hospital before seeking release from her vows to fight with the underground Resistance against the Nazis. Kathryn Hulme is best remembered for her book The Nun's Story, the biography of her companion Marie-Louise Habets (characterized as Gabrielle Van der Mal, or Sister Luke, in the book), a former nun and nurse she met while working overseas following World War II. How's the Road (privately printed, 1928) Arab Interlude (1930) (novel) Desert Night (1932) (fictional autobiography) We Lived as Children (1938) (nonfiction) The Wild Place (1953) (fictionalized biography) The Nun's Story (1956) (fiction) Annie's Captain (1961) (autobiography) Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure (1966) Look a Lion in the Eye (1974). Born on January 6, 1900, in San Francisco, California died on August 25, 1981, in Lihue, Hawaii daughter of Edwin Page and Julia Frances (Cavarly) Hulme attended the University of California, 1918–21 attended Columbia University, 1922 attended Hunter College (now Hunter College of the City University of New York), 1923 never married lived with Marie-Louise Habets (1905–1986) no children. American author who wrote The Nun's Story.
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