Copyright © 2001, 2020 by Suzanne Finstad

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Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Originally published in hardcover, in slightly different form, as Natasha by Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2001.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Criterion Music Corporation: Lyrics from “When the World Was Young,” English lyrics by Johnny Mercer, French lyrics by Angele Vannier. Music by M. Philippe-Gerard. Copyright © 1950–1951. Copyright renewed 1978 by Enoch et Cie. Used by permission of Criterion Music Corporation.

Hobby-Catto Properties, L.L.C.: Excerpt from “Natalie Wood: Hollywood’s Number One Survivor” by Thomas Thompson, Look magazine, April 2, 1979. Used with permission from Hobby-Catto Properties, L.L.C.

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DESIGN BY KAREN MINSTER, ADAPTED FOR EBOOK

This page: At the Sherry-Netherland in New York, spring 1963, during the filming of Love with the Proper Stranger. This was Natalie’s favorite movie experience. Privately, her romance with Warren Beatty was unraveling and she was lonely. Photo used by permission of William Claxton.

This page: Natasha at four, shortly after her parents changed the family name from Zakharenko to Gurdin and moved to Santa Rosa. Photo courtesy of Ed Canevari.

COVER DESIGN: CHRISTOPHER BRAND

COVER PHOTOGRAPH: ERNST HAAS/ GETTY IMAGES

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