Almost Eighty

In the summer of 2011, three months before her eightieth birthday, the playwright Adrienne Kennedy reflected on her life in the unpublished essay “Almost Eighty.” Now, nearly a decade later, with Kennedy’s ninetieth birthday right around the corner, the piece has finally been published in He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays. 

She had her son, Adam, print out her mother's scrapbook that he had on his computer. She wanted to see that scrapbook, started in 1926, and all the photographs and newspaper articles that were stuck inside the pages of the scrapbook. See it below:

Read Kennedy's article in full at The Paris Review