Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing I've been fleeing all my life. and (here it comes): a librarian is just not that easy to become...Apparently there's a whole filing system and annotating system and stamping system and God knows what you have to learn before you qualify.

Dundy grew up in a Park Avenue home where Elaine Dundy was educated by a governess though Elaine Dundy eventually attended high school where her boyfriend Terry was the son of playwright Maxwell Anderson. " Kirkus Reviews described it as "the most fine-grained Elvis bio ever. In 1950 Elaine Dundy met the theater critic Kenneth Tynan and two weeks later they began living together.