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Oct 8, 2021 · Within weeks of its publication in early 1946, The Snake Pit was first on the Chicago Daily News’s best-seller list and second on The New York Times’s, was a Book-of-the-Month Club Dual Selection, had sold more than a million copies in hardcover, was on its way to Hollywood, and was soon translated into sixteen languages.
- Larry Lockridge
May 1, 2012 · In 1946, a former psychiatric patient by the name of Mary Jane Ward wrote a book called The Snake Pit, dealing with the living conditions inside mental institutions and the cruel and often sadistic ways in which patients were treated.
The Snake Pit was released in late 1948 to a chorus of praise from film critics delighted that Hollywood had chosen to treat seriously the plight of the insane in American state mental institutions.
Over the next few years, drawing from her experiences at the psychiatric institution, Ward penned the novel The Snake Pit. The book was published in 1946 and received glowing reviews from critics and from experts in the psychiatric field.
Jul 26, 2018 · This chapter examines the close and productive relationship between Ward’s fiction writing and her experiences as a psychiatric patient and mental health advocate beginning with The Snake Pit in 1946 and including her final published novels, Counterclockwise in 1969 and The Other Caroline in 1970.
- Elizabeth J. Donaldson
- edonalds@nyit.edu
- 2018
Mary Jane Ward had written several novels before she sat down to write The Snake Pit. While originally it was marketed as pure fiction, Ward quickly convinced her publisher that they should not stigmatise or hide her own experience with mental illness.
Sep 29, 2021 · Theatrical poster for the 1948 movie adaptation of The Snake Pit, directed by Anatole Litvak. Kulka: Ward worked as a consultant to the 20th Century-Fox adaptation and spent some time in Hollywood in the company of Olivia de Havilland and Anatole Litvak.
