A brilliant snapshot of Jackie Kennedy

Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's years as a young, single woman. Chafing at the expectations of her family, Jackie pursued her dream of becoming a writer. As the Washington Times-Herald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl,” she posed compelling questions to members of the public and snapped their photos. She then fashioned the results into a daily column, of which six hundred were published.

Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, this illuminating biography recounts in heretofore unrevealed detail the story of her college years and early adulthood as a working woman. It’s a glamorous and hard-charging story of a person determined to define herself, told with admiration, empathy, and journalistic rigor.

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