Description:
In Bonnie Golightly's poignant and funny 1959 novel Beat Girl, a quick-witted, wealthy, seventeen-year-old orphan sets out to establish herself in New York City, searching for "Beautiful People."
Brief description: Bonnie Golightly (1919-1998) grew up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and moved to New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s, where she owned a used bookstore and lived among a group of artists and writers. Golightly published twenty books, including the novels The Wild One, Beat Girl, and The Integration of Maybelle Brown; movie novelizations, some under pseudonyms; and books about the paranormal and sexuality. She is famous for claiming, in a failed lawsuit, that Truman Capote based the character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's on her.