THE DARE WRIGHT STORY

Artist, Actress, Fashion Model, Photographer, and Author of The Lonely Doll Series

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Timeless Storytelling

Explore Dare Wright’s
beloved children's stories.

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Iconic Photography

See her captivating,
vintage-style images.

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Dare's Life Story

Secrets, Betrayals And An Enduring Love

Book cover of "Dare Wright and the Lonely Doll: A Biography" by Brook Ashley, showing a woman on a beach playing with a doll.

Dare Wright's True Story Illustrated With Over 560 Images

1914-2001

Welcome to the official Dare Wright website, where you can explore Dare’s story and see her amazing photographs. Follow the creative road she traveled from skilled artist to Broadway stage actress, cover page fashion model, professional photographer and acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator. Here you can browse her best-selling children’s books that have delighted millions of readers for more than sixty years, and that remain in print today. Here too, you can discover the real story behind the creation of Dare’s most celebrated children's book title, THE LONELY DOLL.

Brook Ashley’s Biography of Dare

DARE WRIGHT AND THE LONELY DOLL features more than four hundred of Dare’s own photographs and an array of other illustrations. Brook Ashley tells Dare’s story as no one else can. She was Dare’s goddaughter, lifelong friend and guardian during her final years.

Brook was also a friend of Dare’s mother Edie, Dare’s brother Blaine and others in Dare’s circle in New York City. Broadway and film star Tallulah Bankhead, Brook’s second godmother, was in the circle. Donald Seawell, Brook’s father, was Dare’s confidant and protector from her early days in New York until the end of her life.

DARE WRIGHT AND THE LONELY DOLL reveals the true story of a complicated angel. She was an ethereal mixture of artistry and innocence.

Awarded 5 stars by its readers on Amazon, the book can be ordered through your favorite bookstore, or you can purchase it online now.

A woman kneeling on the beach with her camera.
Photographing "Lona, A Fairy Tale".