Lanayre D. Liggera Releases New Book

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ He was one adventurous man who lived his life to the fullest despite the dangers and the challenges of the world he lived in. Robert Loraine was an acting star, a pioneer aviator, and a soldier in the Boer War and World War I. His personality was both engaging and enraging and everything about him gets unraveled in this biography penned down by author Lanayre D. Liggera. The Life of Robert Loraine: The Stage, the Sky, and George Bernard Shaw reveals the many faces of this interesting and intriguing man.

Born into a theatrical family, Robert Loraine understood its clashes of temperament and competition for the attention of the audience. He was fortunate to be playing in London by age twenty-one, and secured lead roles two years later. Thus, it was incomprehensible to his peers when he volunteered to fight in the Boer War. After his year of service, he heeded his father's advice: first conquer London, and then America. Four years of dusty old plots made him yearn for something new, something he found in Shaw's Man and Superman.

The lust for something new also led him into pioneer aviation. With political storm clouds closing in again in 1914, he volunteered six days before his country declared war on Germany. Dispatched to the Royal Flying Corps, he served all four years of the war, rose to the highest rank of any civilian, and was gravely wounded twice.

He married in 1921 but was not easily domesticated and their marriage was marked by personal and professional separations. In November 1935, finally collecting enough money to return to his family, he found out that his wife wished to divorce him for non-support. And just two days before Christmas that year, Robert Loraine died.

This book is available online and can be purchased at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com.

About the Author
Lanayre D. Liggera holds an M.A. in literature from Tufts University and another from Goddard-Cambridge Women's Studies. She was a member of a feminist band, the New Harmony Sisterhood, which researched the women's history, finding old songs, or writing new ones, using song as the most mnemonic device.

The Life of Robert Loraine: The Stage, the Sky, and George Bernard Shaw by Lanayre D. Liggera
Publication Date: August 15, 2013
Price: $61.68; 280 pages; ISBN 978-1611494587

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SOURCE Lanayre D. Liggera

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