Impulsive, loyal, outspoken, enigmatic-Katharine Houghton Hepburn is one of the most intriguing personalities of our time.

In this warm, candid biography, Gary Carey has captured the woman who is Kate-an untrammeled spirit of unique charm and integrity. 

Here are her first, fumbling days in summer stock; her gallant (and not always successful) assaults on the citadels of Broadway and Hollywood; her fiery battles with directors and the prying, probing press. 

Here, too, are her romantic affairs with Leland Hayward and Howard Hughes, her short marriage to Ludlow Ogden Smith, and her twenty devoted years with Spencer Tracy.

Relive again her memorable movies and Broadway triumphs. 

Share the private world of this woman of storms and dignity, of headstrong passions and single-minded courage.