Living Large: Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason

This rollicking dual biography by Joseph P. Eckhardt captures, through
deft and engrossing storytelling, the adventures and enduring love affair
of the two “Big Girls” of Woodstock, NY (also Carmel, CA and Anna
Maria Island, FL). It tells the tale of Wilna Hervey as the Toonerville
Trolley’s Powerful Katrinka, silent comedy film star. And it includes the
artistic endeavors of Hervey and Mason, along with their many friends
(Frank Capra, Edward Weston, Eugene Speicher et al.).

The book took Gold in the IBPA’s 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards (LGBT); and it won
Silver (LGBT), Bronze (Biography) and was a finalist (Art) in Foreword
Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards. It has 79 color illustrations
and 101 black-and-white images. Hardcover, 200 pages, trim
size 8 x 10 inches. It has end notes and an index. Published by WoodstockArts
in 2015. ISBN: 9780967926889. $39.50. (Also available from
Ingram and Baker & Taylor.)