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Here is my TOP list of Audrey Hepburn books that I recommend all these books to all of my visitors and Audrey Hepburn fans.  If you can’t afford all the books or don’t have enough time to read them then I have conveniently listed all the key points and pros of each one. You can pick one out based on if you want a biography, photo book for the coffee table, or a book on how to be like Audrey Hepburn.  Some of these I’d recommend more over others, but they are all great in their own ways!  I’ll make some notes for them them below.

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Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon

By terrence pepper.

[star rating=”5″]    [5/5] “MUST HAVE PICTURE BOOK FOR ANY AUDREY FAN”

Reasons to Get this Book:

  • The Ultimate Coffee Table Book – If you are searching for a great photo book of Audrey or just in general, then this is the one you absolutely need to get!
  • It has 192 pages which are gorgeously laid out with breathtaking photos on almost every single page – This is a perfect book and conversation piece to thumb through pictures and strike up conversations with friends or family.
  • Rare photographs of her younger years before she became famous!
  • Shows ALL the pictures from the Audrey Hepburn Exhibition by the National Portrait Gallery in London, England July, 2, 2015.
  • Pages contain photographs from more prolific and important photographers and rare occasions
  • There are also NEVER before seen private photographs released by Audrey’s Family estate
  • Photography from Magazines, newspapers clippings, fashion photos etc.
  • One of the best Audrey Hepburn books to get in my opinion for the magnificent photos.
  • THIS IS THE BOOK I GOT THIS YEAR and would be a perfect Audrey Hepburn Gift
  •  MY TOP PICK 

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Audrey Hepburn 

By barry paris, reasons to get this:.

  • THE LONGEST Biography on Audrey Hepburn
  • 496 PAGES LONG of content packed information!
  • This author, Barry, has done an outstanding job in investigating and interviewing people who were close friends, and costars of Audrey’s to get their perspective of her.  There hasn’t been a biographer who has yet been able to interview as numerous of friends and famous costars as this author has achieved.
  • The author does a really great job at creating a riveting, insightful biography about Audrey
  • This is a great Biography and a must read for any one who wants to know more about Audrey Hepburn and wants to be an Authority on the subject of her.

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Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn

by Donald Spoto

Reasons to buy this:

  • 368 Pages – Extremely nostalgic and a FRESH and PERSONAL perspective on Audrey Hepburn
  • The author constructs an extremely detailed portrait of a woman whose, personal insecurity, vulnerability, and innate love of family endeared her to all those exposed to her – Hepburn’s inner circle, friends, colleagues, lovers and ultimately the world.
  • Extremely detailed piece of work, this one will rival the book written by her son
  • GREAT biography of Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit

by Sean Ferrer 1998

Reasons to Get this Book:

  • Written by her first born son Sean Ferrer!
  • See through the eyes of her son with personal memories and stories about Audrey
  • 256 pages of heart felt writing from her son Sean.
  • The book has personal details and memories but also serves as a biography.
  • This is the first one of the Audrey Hepburn books written by her sons. The second one is down below written by Luca Dotti.
  • Highly Recommended

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Audrey: Her Real Story

by Alexander Walker

  • Contains 336 pages of great info.
  • Great Biography with amazing pictures to boot.
  • This book goes more in depth into her early career than all the other books.
  • Also the author tackles hard issues like anorexia and digs deep into her troubled times, divorces, miscarriages, etc. The other author Barry Paris, skirts around these types of issues or tries to paint them in the best light.
  • Researches and interviews lots of people, costars, and friends –
  • “Walker has all the facts…A meticulous account.” ―Entertainment Weekly
  • “Walker is a much better write than most Audrey biographers, and he distills the subtle image/reality of the Audrey Hepburn complex.” ―Cups
  • Reasons NOT to buy:
  • The Author doesn’t put his interviews in quotes and makes his own conjecture from his interviews. This is not a huge deal, however, the book by Barry Paris – he writes a lot of quotes from his interviews.

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How to be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life

by Melissa Hellstern

  • 208 Pages – This book is more of a book based on philosophies of how Audrey Hepburn lived rather than a biography.
  • Perfect if you want to become more like Audrey, live Gracefully, Charming, Elegant, and above most of all kind.
  • This book definitely imparts wisdom and insight from Audrey Hepburn.

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Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother’s Kitchen

By Luca Dotti

  • Contains 256 Pages – Highly nostalgic and offers a FRESH and PERSONAL perspective on Audrey Hepburn
  • THIS book is written by Audrey’s 2nd son, Luca Dotti!
  • Finally get a glimpse into the private world of Audrey’s that no one ever knew about from the perspective of her son – her children, friends she had over, her pets that she loved and adored, and her overall lifestyle at home.
  • Collections of her favorite memories – excerpts from her personal correspondences such as drawings, anecdotes, mail, her favorite recipes written in her OWN handwriting.
  • Previously unpublished photographs
  • This showcases and lists Audrey Hepburn’s very own recipes! So you can recreate the same things that she ate!

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Just being Audrey

By Margaret Cardillo

  • Perfect introduction into the world of Audrey Hepburn
  • In 32 pages of charming illustrations, both children and adults can both learn a couple awesome things about Audrey Hepburn.
  • Teaching concepts about KINDNESS, helping others, and self acceptance and hard work to children.
  • Absolutely beautiful illustrations
  • This book covers her career, motherhood, childhood, and UNICEF work.
  • MY FINAL THOUGHTS: Out of all the Audrey Hepburn books, this is the cutest.  The book is absolutely charming, and as an adult, sometimes reteaching something in a children’s book format will drive home a point more – it’s very cute… but also in depth and substantial.

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Audrey Style

by Pamela Clarke Keogh

  • 235 Pages worth of pretty pictures
  • Perfect for a coffee table book
  • Audrey Style is more of a biography rather than a study of her style.
  • It has text through out the pages so there is as much reading as there are pictures. You’ll learn a thing or two about audrey
  • It’s not you’re ordinary run of the mill biography.

What are your Favorite Audrey Hepburn Books?!

Don’t be shy now. If you have a couple favorite Audrey Hepburn books, please let everyone know! 🙂

I’ll try to put up some more books, however, these are some of the most prolific ones.  So don’t worry we have you covered.  If you found a book that you think should be up here, please drop me a line below!

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I have most of those books, all definite must haves for the fan!! But another great one is “The Audrey Hepburn Treasures” by Ellen Erwin and Jessica Diamond. What makes it so different is that it has copies of mementos from her life, such as post cards, playbills, letters written to Audrey, etc that you can pull out examine, all very cool. It has some new photos but the mementos is what makes it special. My favorite one has to be the copy or a few pages of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s script with her handwritten notes!

Ooooo, thanks for sharing Jon! You’re making me Jealous now! 🙂 I need to go and get the book now, you’ve piqued my interest! Hehe.

By the way, best Audrey website in the world!!! Thanks for keeping the torch burning so brightly. Another honorable mention book not on the list, though a great read was Sam Wasson’s “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman”. A long title! But filled with lots of background information, movie history and stuff for the ardent Breakfast fan.

Jon, that means so much to me! A lot of work goes into the site that most people don’t see. So thank you so much for your kind comment. I’ve heard of that one and always wanted to read it! Thanks for reminding me and the readers!

I love Audrey Hepburn but where i live, it is very difficult to get hands on a good Audrey Hepburn book. Good work with the list, I have noted every single one down and will try to get them where i live. Audrey is such a darling and I love her so much. <3

Have you read Adieu Audrey: Memories of Audrey Hepburn? Since it was written by her, I am curious on what topics she really goes into.

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If Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn ever met, the encounter has gone unrecorded in two new biographies of the namesake stars, who probably had less in common than Joan Crawford and Broderick Crawford. Cecil Beaton, who dressed them both, found the older Hepburn to be “the egomaniac of all time,” whereas the younger one possessed, he thought, a “waifish, poignant sympathy.” Beaton was better equipped temperamentally to spot the first type, but readers of William J. Mann’s “Kate” and Donald Spoto’s “Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn” will be hard pressed to argue with the essence of the designer’s appraisals.

Mann’s Hepburn sustains her nearly 70-year career from a consuming ambition to become and stay famous, what she herself called a “wild desire to be absolutely fascinating.” She liked the camera even more than it liked her, and despite her projection of flinty integrity and Yankee good sense, she chased notoriety as avidly as any shopgirl who ever stepped onto a bus for Hollywood. Mann concedes Hepburn a certain genuineness of feeling toward Howard Hughes in the late 1930’s, but keeps us mindful that “relationships between public figures are rarely spontaneous combustions.” The press could be counted on to flock to an aviator who had an actress in the cockpit, and so she flew.

Mann contends that Hepburn didn’t really become an actress until she was past 50, when a drive “toward artistic recognition” temporarily replaced the hunger for notice pure and simple. The new, nobler spur sent her off to tour Australia in stage productions of Shakespeare and made her perform searingly in the film adaptations of “Suddenly Last Summer” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” But after back-to-back Oscars for “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “The Lion in Winter,” and throughout the old age that followed, her thirst for attention regained sway, making sure she was fussed over and fluffed by a series of strategically chosen interviewers.

Hepburn reached Hollywood in 1932, via Connecticut and Bryn Mawr, and once she was there, the director George Cukor made her over and the agent Leland Hayward got her big money. But her pictures and personality played better in the cities than the sticks, and after a big success with “Little Women” she took a hard, fast dive. At RKO, she went from one flop to another and endured a Broadway humiliation (“The Lake”) for good measure. Her best film performance from the 1930’s may have come with “Alice Adams,” in which Hepburn’s desperate, please-notice-me gestures actually fit the valiantly pretentious heroine of Booth Tarkington’s book.

The playwright Philip Barry turned things around for her, but he got his marching orders from Hepburn herself, who shrewdly told him what to do with the character he was writing for her in “The Philadelphia Story”: “Make her like me, but make her go all soft.” Transferred to the movies (Hughes bought her the film rights), the property “defrosted” Hepburn, as Mann puts it, letting her look merely formidable instead of overweening. Having left RKO in 1938, she arrived at MGM ready to be “a classical movie star” at last.

Mann is less interested in Hepburn’s career than in the private arc she traveled alongside it, insisting, reasonably enough, that it is “time to take off the blinders” to the large portions of her emotional existence that were organized around relationships with women. “I put on pants 50 years ago and declared a sort of middle road,” Hepburn explained in 1981, with more candor than was typical of her. Mann does the best he can with the complicated sexual algebra: “She was, in her soul, neither woman nor man, though it was men — straight men — with whom she identified. ... But it was only with women that she could set Jimmy free and be herself” — Jimmy being the short-haired boy she’d renamed herself around the time she was 10.

Growing up, Hepburn had made the acquaintance of her mother’s lesbian college friends, formidable “aunts” who were active in politics and the arts in the Greenwich Village of World War I and the 1920’s. Kate’s own serious female romances, including one with the heiress Laura Harding, were clearly central to her life, but they can be a source of biographical frustration. When trying to decide what happened on both sides of Hepburn’s “middle” road, Mann frequently falls into a hedge: “Yet how intimate were they?”; “Yet there’s no evidence”; “Was there a kiss?” Still, inconclusiveness in these matters is smarter than certainty, and Mann manages to be convincing when it comes to patterns if not particulars.

Hepburn tended to follow any serious breakup with a male (the poet H. Phelps Putnam, Howard Hughes and even, for a period, Spencer Tracy) “by retreating to the comforting embrace of a community of women.” Her physical appetites seem to have been decidedly low; in terms of emotion, she was homosexually a taker but heterosexually a giver. If she was attracted to a male type, it was someone in bad need of enabling and cleaning up after. This symbol of female independence generally went for men who were alcoholic, womanizing, married or bisexual. (Mann has Hughes, John Ford and even Tracy weaving all over that sexual road.) The son of the producer David O. Selznick once explained why Hepburn’s relationship with Hayward never got very far: “Leland just wasn’t tortured enough for her.”

Tracy, her great on-screen collaborator, had personal misery to spare: his drinking; the deafness of his son; a guilty separation from his wife; a pessimism so complete he believed himself headed, literally, to hell. Hepburn never asked him to stop drinking, worried perhaps that his sobriety might parch the dependency in which they swam. Their private world seems to have contained little of the sexually energized sparring of their films, and probably no more kissing than they did on-screen, which wasn’t much. Despite a general assumption about the length and steadiness of their companionship, Hepburn did leave Tracy for a large part of the 1950’s, but returned to devote herself to him with extraordinary vigor during the years leading up to his death in 1967. During her peculiar sort of widowhood, which lasted more than 30 years, she began publicly to romanticize a relationship whose limitations had derived less from the pressures of circumstance than the deliberate wariness of its participants.

Mann didn’t wait for Hepburn’s papers to become available before writing his book, but he seems to have been unusually enterprising in obtaining materials and interviews from some of the star’s less-famous surviving intimates. Reconstructing Hepburn as a kind of fragile monster, he explains things in a voice that can be stern and fussy (he relishes correcting past biographers’ mistakes) and on occasion so solemn as to seem comical: “That the sophisticated circle surrounding Cukor was largely gay cannot be denied.”

It’s interesting to note that Hepburn never became a blazing gay reference point in the manner of other full-throttle female stars of the 30’s and 40’s like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. What may have kept generations of homosexual men from taking her into their hearts was their sense that Hepburn, even “defrosted,” could always so manifestly do without the man on-screen. They never sensed this while watching Davis and Crawford, not even when those stars were at their most ferocious, and they never felt it about themselves.

It was also something they never felt when watching the other, later Hepburn, Audrey. Preternaturally pretty instead of striking, and usually more delicate than dramatic on film, she nonetheless nearly ached with the need for male love. Style, too, had something to do with her own still growing gay-iconic status, though in her case the style seems to have been less an ambitious self-creation than something she gratefully allowed to be draped over her, like one of Givenchy’s costumes.

Donald Spoto’s new biography isn’t nearly so ambitious or stimulating as Mann’s — it’s mostly a competent clip job — but the real contrast between “Enchantment” and “Kate” lies in the emotional mainsprings of their subjects. If Katharine Hepburn tended to mythologize her parents and her childhood, Audrey Hepburn generally veiled the hurt of her own early life. Misunderstood by her Dutch mother and abandoned by her English father, she nearly starved to death during the Nazi occupation of Holland. She would always remain avid for the chocolate and tobacco that accompanied her rescue by English soldiers in 1945. Milk and medicine arrived with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, whose later incarnation, Unicef, she would repay with years of hard work.

Directors constantly paired her with much older leading men — Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire — and in films she always seems to be searching less for romance than paternal protection. She would no doubt have lived her life anywhere with conspicuously good manners; that she lived it so in the movie business makes her even more appealing. “Enchantment” is devoid of feuds and fits of temperament. Hepburn always displayed modesty about her acting abilities, which in fact grew to be considerable. She may have been risibly ill cast in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (Truman Capote had wanted Marilyn Monroe), but who can deny that her screen Holly Golightly is more memorable than the book’s? Despite her general cooperativeness, Hepburn always refused to pad her flat chest, a decision that seems even wiser when one considers the soulless result of allowing her lovely, plaintive voice to be dubbed by Marni Nixon’s in “My Fair Lady.”

Compared with Katharine Hepburn’s epic film career, her own — if one doesn’t count the few, mostly bad movies she made during fitful re-emergences from a premature retirement — was quite brief, just about 15 years. But its ratio of hits to misses, of films worth doing (“The Nun’s Story,” “Two for the Road”) to projects better left unmade (“How to Steal a Million”) was probably higher than the other Hepburn’s. She wanted far less from the movies and something far simpler from life; certainly she had no “wild desire to be absolutely fascinating.” She married unwisely, twice, the first time to the actor Mel Ferrer, who thought they could become the Lunts, but who, more typically, wound up being cast as Prince Andrei since that’s how they could get his wife for Natasha, in “War and Peace.” Audrey Hepburn’s sexual drive seems to have been far heartier than Katharine Hepburn’s — more like her exact contemporary Grace Kelly’s — but love affairs with William Holden and Ben Gazzara only accentuated the sadness beneath her charm.

Spoto does a far less successful job of inhabiting his Hepburn than Mann manages with his, but “Enchantment” makes palpable the degree to which Audrey Hepburn was possessed by an urgent and unsettling need to give love — stronger even than the urge to receive it. Perhaps this was the ultimate form of her good manners. Whatever the case, the condition drove her in a more elemental way than Katharine Hepburn’s need to ride to the rescue of all those damaged men. Toward the close of her life, she found a happy companionship with Robert Wolders, a Dutch former actor who accompanied her on her trips for Unicef; she spent more effort promoting the agency’s projects than she’d spent publicizing her films. Of the two Hepburns, she was the one who remained undevoured by her own persona, the one marked out for a sadder life but a better last reel.

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  • Can you imagine your little one having so much fun reading, they prefer reading over screen time?

Then, you will love our children-friendly biography of Audrey Hepburn! Use this exciting biography book to instill timeless values & principles in your child.

This inspirational Audrey Hepburn children's book includes:

  • I: Illustrated biography - Printed in full color and written like a storybook, these 26 pages of engaging illustrations are sure to engage your little ones... (Warning: Reading could become addictive)
  • II: Extended biography - Curated to deepen your child's knowledge about Audrey Hepburn, our extended biography is also perfect for school reports...
  • III: Gallery - Impress your little ones with an iconic photo of Audrey Hepburn...
  • IV: Glossary - Reinforce your child's learning with simplified explanations of advanced vocabulary...
  • V: Muse Museum - Introduce your little ones to a myriad of other inspirational individuals in our book collection...
  • VI: BONUS Education Guide - The perfect educational tool (downloadable pdf) to center a class around or to spark an enriching conversation just before bedtime...

Age Specifications:

This illustrated biography book of Audrey Hepburn is perfect for boys and girls between 5 to 10 years old and it is awesome for any child (toddlers, preschool and kindergarten) who is interested in reading. Your kid will love it!

About Audrey Hepburn:

Actress, ballerina, and humanitarian, Audrey Hepburn's story is one of love, generosity, and kindness. Having experienced destitution during her time resisting the Nazi's occupation of the Netherlands during World War 2, Audrey Hepburn lived a purposeful life by constantly giving back to those in similar plights. Her love, kindness, and tenacity in doing the good work of elevating others' lives show us that beauty is more than just how one looks on the outside, but how a person is like on the inside as well.

"They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return." - Audrey Hepburn

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  • Reading age 5 - 10 years
  • Part of series Inspired Inner Genius
  • Print length 36 pages
  • Language English
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
  • Publisher Inspired Inner Genius
  • Publication date November 19, 2021
  • ISBN-10 169040955X
  • ISBN-13 978-1690409557
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Inspired Inner Genius (November 19, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 36 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 169040955X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1690409557
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 - 10 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
  • #745 in Children's Performing Arts Biographies (Books)
  • #3,221 in Children's Women Biographies (Books)
  • #4,593 in Children's Multicultural Biographies

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Inspired inner genius.

Here at Inspired Inner Genius, we believe that every child is born a genius. We are a publishing house founded with the purpose to publish children's books that serve to inspire, educate and empower young minds across the globe from a tender age. We figured, what better way to do so than to help these kids meet their muse — by publishing the biographies of those who came before us.

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