But Jackie also had her passion projects: she acquired Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth and Bill Moyers’s Healing and the Mind—two books quite personal to her, given her obsession with mythology and her lifelong attempts to heal herself—and both became bestsellers. Her lifelong love of ballet helped Jackie to persuade prima ballerina Gelsey Kirkland to write her autobiography, also a critical and commercial success. And Jackie worked closely with the African American author Dorothy West on her novel The Wedding, which would come to be regarded as a modern-day classic.
