Allegra Kent [own] parents. She borrowed a neighbor's working papers and took a job at twelve. By fourteen, she was teaching ballroom dancing at night in someone's private home, mostly to Japanese men". Born in Santa Monica, Kent studied with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci before joining the School of American Ballet. She discovered music and dance at the age of 7 and enjoyed both, but she was 11 before she took her first ballet lesson. She had completely flat feet as a little girl and consulted a doctor, who prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. She then began
Allegra Huston Allegra Huston Allegra Huston (born 26 August 1964) is a writer and editor based in Taos, New Mexico. She is the author of "Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found", published in April 2009 by Simon & Schuster (US) and Bloomsbury (UK). Her first novel, "Say My Name", was published in July 2017 by HQ in the UK and in January 2018 by MIRA in the US. "Love Child" was praised by Simon Schama (author of "Citizens" and "Landscape and Memory") as "so bravely written, so clear and intensely vivid, so unsentimentally honest, so deeply humane," and by