Bosworth and Fonda met as students at the Actors Studio in the 1960s and kept in touch for 40 years, and it’s a great sense of both the wide-eyed, vulnerable ingenue and the poised, present-day personality that sets Bosworth’s biography, a decade in the writing, apart. That restive energy also comes through in a probing new biography, **Patricia Bosworth’**s Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). consciousness and soul.” Once more in perfect pace with the times, Fonda walks the line between personal memoir, practical advice, and spirituality-there are guides to both meditation and Kegel exercises-and her sincerity is winning as ever as she touches on everything from love to finances. Instead of an arch “taking us from childhood to a middle peak of maturity, followed by a decline into infirmity,” she proposes a staircase that symbolizes “our potential for upward progression toward wisdom, spiritual growth, learning, toward. Advocating for a new way of looking at aging, Fonda presents her readers with an alternative metaphor for growing older. Now in her 70s, she’s written a new book, Prime Time (Random House), bringing a refreshing frankness to her personal third act. In 2005, she published her best-selling autobiography, My Life So Far. Her earnest enthusiasm has made her not just an icon but a kind of cultural bellwether.
An Oscar-winning actress, a sympathetic sex symbol, political activist, fitness impresario, and tireless philanthropist, she’s created a shimmering-yet entirely genuine-feeling-new persona for every decade. Photo: Courtesy of Random House (left) Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (right)įew women have had as many lives as Jane Fonda.
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