Allegra Kent Allegra Kent Allegra Kent (born August 11, 1937) is an American ballet dancer, actress, children's book author and columnist. Iris Margo Cohen was born to Jewish parents, Harry Herschel and Shirley (née Weissman) Cohen, and later changed her name to Allegra Kent. Kent grew up in what she later described as a dysfunctional environment. In "Once a Dancer: An Autobiography", she describes her Texan father – "who liked to substitute 'Cowboy' for Herschel" – as having "a gambler's soul and a restless nature". She describes her Wisznice-born immigrant mother as feeling "neither European nor American; she was ashamed of her
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