Gracie: A Love Story

Gracie: A Love Story is a 1988 biography of comedian Gracie Allen by George Burns. The tribute to Burns' wife and professional partner reviews their life together and contrasts Allen's scatterbrained public persona with the intelligent actress and devoted wife she actually was.[1][2]

Gracie: A Love Story
First edition
Author	George Burns
Language	English
Publisher	G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date	1988
Pages	319
ISBN	0-399-13384-4
OCLC	19740761

It was offered as a Book of the Month Club selection. For the audiobook version, Burns received the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Publication history

1988: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988, hardcover
1988: New York: Simon & Schuster Audioworks, 1988, audiocassette
1989: New York: Penguin Books, November 1, 1989, paperback

References

Gracie: A Love Story. WorldCat. OCLC 18351637.
"Gracie Allen Still Steals the Show". Rothstein, Mervyn, The New York Times, November 2, 1988. Retrieved 2014-03-26.

Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
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