Diana of the Dunes: The True Story of Alice Gray

Janet Zenke Edwards

jul 2010 · Arcadia Publishing

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The true story of a woman who abandoned Chicago for a secluded life in a remote shack—and became an early twentieth-century sensation.
 
In the fall of 1915, an educated woman named Alice Gray traded her life in bustling Chicago for a solitary journey in the remote sand hills of northwest Indiana along Lake Michigan. Living in a fisherman’s shack, she measured herself against nature rather than society’s rigid conventions. Her audacity so bewitched reporters and a curious public that she became a legend in her own time—she became “Diana of the Dunes.”
 
Over a century later, the story is still a popular folktale, but questions remain. Who was Alice Gray? Why did this Phi Beta Kappa scholar leave Chicago? What happened to her soul mate, Paul Wilson? In this first-ever book about Diana of the Dunes, the mystery of Alice Gray is revealed by those who knew her and through new research. Excerpts from her dunes diary are published here for the first time since 1918. In these pages, rediscover the legend of Diana of the Dunes—and learn the truth.

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Although this marks her first book-length work, Janet Zenke Edwards has long written about fascinating, unusual and otherwise remarkable people whose stories have appeared under her byline in newspapers, magazines and essays. She lives with her husband and three children in St. Louis, Missouri. Every summer she is grateful for time spent at the family's third-generation cottage along Lake Michigan's shoreline, within walking distance of where Alice Gray first settled in the Indiana dunes.