Meaker, age seventeen, with her first car, a 1937 LaSalle convertible with a rumble seat, and a sailor from Sampson Naval Base. The bane of her parents’ existences—both the base and the sailors.
Meaker and Jim Sears at a fraternity dance in Missouri in 1948.
Meaker with Irving the dog in East Hampton, New York, in 1976.
Meaker (front), with close friend and author Tom Baird and Barbara Dicks of Harper & Row in 1980.
Portrait of Meaker at age sixty-two.
Meaker with Tom Baird in 1989.
Meaker holding Gerbils the dog, next to ER the Siamese cat, in East Hampton in 1989.
Meaker and neighbor John “Trip” Timmerman in East Hampton in December 1991.
Meaker, her brother Charles, and her grandniece Tracy Hovelin in August 1999.
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Copyright © 1982 by M. E. Kerr
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