Water for Elephants Author Sara Gruen Entrusts Broadway With Her Story of Chosen Family Under the Big Top by Hayley Levitt

Sara Gruen was halfway through writing a different book when Water for Elephants seized control of her imagination. On February 7, 2003, The Chicago Tribune published a piece about elusive circus photographer Edward J. Kelty. Throughout the 1920s and '30s, Kelty followed the country's most famous circus performers across the country, documenting life beneath the big top at Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey, Hage…

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