She had a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, a résumé of small-bore jobs in and out of academia and no fixed address. In the winter of 1962, she rented a house on Nantucket in Massachusetts, bought herself a German shepherd puppy and set out to interrogate her life. The stakes were high: As she later wrote, she was fully prepared to end it all should she not succeed. The book that recorded her experience, “An Unknown Woman,” was eventually published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1982. Ms. Koller died on July 21 in a hospital in Trenton, N.J., at 95, a niece, Cherie Koller-Fox, said.

Source: New York Times August 28, 2020 20:32 UTC