Publisher's Synopsis
Author Judy Watson has led a unique life. She was sent away at the age of three, during World War II, to live in a boarding school with her brother. In her youth, she went on to rub elbows with Hollywood celebrities and worked in a carnival as a teen. She became a surrogate daughter to a silent film star who had a thirty-year affair with her mother, and she found out that her great-uncle was a notorious mobster who had palled around with Bugsy Siegel. She would go on to meet and marry a pioneer in broadcast television and give birth to two children, one of whom has won multiple Emmy Awards. And she survived cancer-twice!
Through it all, starting at a young age, Judy has been writing. She journaled about these remarkable experiences, she wrote down amazing stories she overheard, and she has already published a biography and joined two anthologies. Recollections of a Life is a collection of memories and short stories that chronicle her many adventures. Some are comical, while some are tragic. But each of them is guaranteed to entertain. Judy Watson was born in Chicago, Illinois, and has lived in California since 1947. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, where she majored in literature. She has two grown children and three grandchildren. She has worked and lived in the world of entertainment since 1959. Her son is an Emmy-Award-winning writer who has continued this dream, as has her daughter, a colorist and photographer who works in animation. Judy began writing years ago and published Wings and Other Recollections of Early Hollywood, the biography of Richard Arlen, in 2015. And with the wonderful help of the Conejo Valley Writers, she has continued to write both fiction and non-fiction. This is her second book. In 1968, she moved to Westlake Village, California, and has stayed there ever since, after a childhood of living in many places. She enjoys the serenity and peace and hopes to write forever. She shares her home with a beautiful and tough little Pom named Bube and a huge Coon cat named Buddy. All is calm and serene... for the moment.
