Characters: East of Eden

East of Eden

Mary Louise or Mollie Hamilton: 1861-1915

Oprah's Book Club | June 18, 2003

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Mollie is "a little beauty with lovely blond hair and violet eyes." It was she who gave John Steinbeck Malory's Morte d'Arthur when he was nine years old.

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