An Unconventional Woman: My Career, Travels, Life, and Love - Softcover

Grossinger, Tania

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1510704205 ISBN 13: 9781510704206

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2016

Synopsis

A tale of a young woman battling the stereotype of women living and working in the swinging sixties’ and a road map of how she kept sane and successful in the real world of mad men.’” Sharon Hazard, WomanAroundTown.com

It takes a special kind of woman to have the courage to defy societal conventions. In an era when her female counterparts were still expected to marry early and have children, Tania Grossinger set out on her own.

After spending her childhood at the famous Grossinger’s resort in the Catskills, Tania Grossinger was the publicist for the groundbreaking The Feminine Mystique (over three million copies sold), spent seven years as the director of broadcast promotion for Playboy Magazine and the Playboy Club, did PR for The $64,000 Question, escaped her first marriage, and went to live in Mexico and that’s only the beginning. Rubbing shoulders with some of America's most famous figures, what Tania has to reveal about Ayn Rand (she has a sense of humor after all), Timothy Leary, Hugh Hefner, and the unsolved disappearance of a fellow travel writer in Jamaica will keep you up at night turning the pages of one of the most interesting women to put pen to paper in recent memory.

As she reflects on her life now, Tania is single and one of two million of us Americans who are childless by choice.” The memoir is addressed to Natasha, on whose absence the book hinges. But who is she? Smart, sensitive, and revealing, this is a must-read memoir for any woman who has ever strived for independence.

About this title

From the Author

Tania Grossinger was a freelance writer, public speaker, public relations consultant, and frequent talk show guest. She is the author of Growing Up at Grossinger’s as well as the children’s book Jackie and Me, about her friendship with the famous baseball player Jackie Robinson. Her travel articles have appeared in over one hundred newspapers and magazines. She passed away in 2015.

From Booklist

Grossinger continues her reminiscence of her life at a legendary Catskills resort that she began in Growing Up at Grossinger’s (2008). Here, she looks back to her unusual early years in Hollywood where her mother, widowed since Tania was two, sent her to boarding school when she was six years old, and where she stayed until her father’s cousin brought mother and daughter to Grossinger’s, so that, as he put it, “Tania will have a family.” Landing in the heart of a famous Jewish enclave was quite a jolt for a girl who didn’t even know she was Jewish. But Tania wanted a career more than a family of her own, and she has had one as a successful publicist and PR executive for Playboy. Grossinger tells tales of many of the famous people she got to know and her decision not to have a child because she feared “passing on...the detritus of my emotional past.” Yet she addresses this memoir, which is centered on her own emotionally elusive mother, to an imaginary daughter, Natasha, “the child who might have shared some degree of happiness with me.” Surprises abound in this distinctly unusual memoir of a successful woman. --Whitney Scott

Edition details

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1510704205
• ISBN 13: 9781510704206
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320