Author(s): Alan Andrews Ragland

General Biography

Stories of the-great-man-and-how-he-did-it serve as a traditional mainstay of biographies, but memoirs that focus on relationships are more likely to be discussed in women’s groups. THE MAYBELLINE STORY combines the best of both approaches: a man whose vision rocketed him to successs along with the woman held in his orbit. THE MAYBELLINE STORY provides other kinds of classic literary satisfaction. We are especially fascianted to slip vicariously into the lies of the rich and privileged yet cheer for the underdog who overcomes obstacles to astound doubters with his success. We are enthralled with the historical sweep of events whose repercussions live on to the present, all elements of THE MAYBELLINE STORY - which reads like a juicy novel, but is in fact a family memoir, distilled from nine hundred pages of family accounts from the 1920’s to present.