Doomed Queen Anne traitor's death, instead receiving the simple axe. On page 129, Anne says that she, herself, will rest her own head on the block the following morning. According to eyewitness accounts, she knelt upright in the French style of execution. Doomed Queen Anne Doomed Queen Anne is a young-adult historical novel about Anne Boleyn by Carolyn Meyer. It is the third book in the Young Royals series. Other books are "Mary, Bloody Mary", "Beware, Princess Elizabeth" and "Patience, Princess Catherine". The book was originally published in the U.S. in 2002 by Harcourt/Gulliver Books (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The book begins in
Katherine Anne Porter Fools" for $500,000). Producer David O. Selznick was after the film rights; but United Artists who owned the property, demanded $400,000. The novel was adapted for film by Abby Mann; producer and director Stanley Kramer featured Vivien Leigh in her final film performance. Despite Porter's claim that after the publication of "Ship of Fools " she would not win any more prizes in America, in 1966 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award for "The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter". That year she was also appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.