How long does it take to read Katharine Hepburn?
Katharine Hepburn by Barbara Leaming takes about 10 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 4 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1995. 549 pages, about 150,975 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At last, the definitive biography of Katharine Hepburn - the story she herself has never told. Hollywood has produced many stars, but no one compares to Katharine Hepburn. She is the last of the great ones: a celebrated actress, a brilliant personality, an original. In more than sixty years of public life, countless men have fallen in love with her, women have admired her, and yet only a handful have ever known the real Kate. What drove Katharine Hepburn? Why was she so loved? How could such a fiercely independent woman have given up her life to one man - Spencer Tracy - to the point of curling up on the floor outside his hotel room while he drank himself into unconsciousness behind a locked door? Barbara Leaming has discovered thousands of never-before-seen documents that finally illuminate the mystery of this enigmatic, fascinating woman. Growing up in a family shadowed by suicide and madness, young Kate was unaware of her family's tragic history until the day - she was thirteen - she discovered her brother hanging dead in an attic. His death - and the heritage that might have explained it - was never talked of again, leaving Kate with unresolved questions that have haunted her ever since. It is a love story - though not the one you would expect. It is also a family story that brings alive three generations of fearless women, personal and political crusaders who shaped the history of women in our century.
Subjects: Films, Actrices de cinéma, Family, Motion picture actors and actresses, Biographies, Acteurs de cinéma
