“This is a memoir that bears remembering—as a testament to the possibilities implicit in those who never stop searching for a third, fourth or fifth way out of confining circumstances in order to shape a new life that’s useful, durable and inevitably original.

With luck, pluck and the strenuous effort that define her journey, Donna Wilhelm traces, in A Life of My Own, the roads taken or not, and the unexpected beginnings to her current state of grace that might have seemed far from certain—even to a personality as set to soar as hers.”