Katharine Hepburn - I Know Where I'm Going: A Personal Biography

by Charlotte Chandler

By the time she retired, Katharine Hepburn had won a record four Best Actress Academy Awards and been nominated twelve times. Her career spanned six decades, and she was universally acknowledged as one of the finest actors in film history. For over two years, Hepburn spoke with striking candor to author Charlotte Chandler about her private self and public personality, whom she named "the creature." I Know Where I'm Going is a fascinating, delightful, and personal book that brings readers as close as possible to the real Katharine Hepburn.

• The private Hepburn in her own words: Katharine Hepburn draws on a series of interviews Chandler conducted with the actress during the 1970s and 1980s. Chandler also interviewed director George Cukor; Hepburn co-stars Cary Grant and James Stewart; and Laurence Olivier, Ginger Rogers, and other screen luminaries. .

• A Hollywood icon unveiled: Notoriously guarded, Katharine Hepburn talks candidly with Chandler about her marriage, her long affair with Spencer Tracy, co-stars and movies, and the seminal event in her life—the suicide of her brother, whom she adored, when they were both in their teens. With her unprecedented access to Hepburn, Chandler has written a biography completely different from all others, including Hepburn's own guarded book about herself. .