North Carolina author Mildred Harris has donated six autographed copies of AFTER ANAÏS, A Second-Hand Memoir, to USO's “Care Package” of books for the enjoyment of our troops overseas.

AFTER ANAÏS is the true story of a young woman from Southeastern North Carolina who became a model in demand on two continents -- beautiful, intelligent. bewitching. And a serious painter, too. She refused to accept injustice as “just the way things are”.

AFTER ANAÏS looks at the mid-Twentieth Century -- people and events that even younger members of the Services will recognize: Ray Charles, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Eartha Kitt, J. Edgar Hoover, Emmitt Till; V-E Day, the B-25 that hit the Empire State Building, travel by ocean liner – and a look behind the scenes of the high fashion world of New York and Paris.         
                                                      
The book is amusing, thoughtful, filled with “front page” names in fashion like Geoffrey Beene and Jaques Griffe. Events and characters are seen through the artist's observant eye. It is an entertaining mix of human emotions, frailties and absurdities, spiced with humor.
AFTER ANAÏS is a good story. As an antidote for stress, an amusing memoir is hard to beat.