The Little Locksmith


The Little Locksmith is a memoir by Katharine Butler Hathaway about the effects of spinal tuberculosis on her childhood and adult life.

Synopsis

Hathaway recounts a childhood immobilized on a treatment board, her hard-won mobility, artistic ambitions, and later life in Castine, Maine. Selections appeared in The Atlantic shortly before book publication.

Publication history

Pop culture

The book is referenced in the Gilmore Girls episode "Help Wanted".