The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption

Barbara Bisantz Raymond

Apr 2009 · Sold by Da Capo Press

About this ebook

For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee -- selling her charges to wealthy clients nationwide, Joan Crawford among them. Part social history, part detective story, part expose, The Baby Thief is a riveting investigative narrative that explores themes that continue to reverberate today.

Ratings and reviews

This is a well-written book with tragic stories of adoption. I feel some stories were more graphic then They needed to be. With stories of the lives of these children, some details need not be said....and are already implied with basic words. Anyway that being said it was eye-opening and informative.

Awesome book I loved reading it. Hated what she did but loved the history.

Unbelievable.

About the author

Barbara Raymond has written extensively for Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, McCall's, Parents, Reader's Digest, Working Mother, Writer's Digest, and USA Today. She contributed to The Handbook of Magazine Article Writing (Writer's Digest Books), and was an author of a Good Housekeeping Child Care section that won the National Magazine Award for Public Service. She has been nominated for a National Magazine Award in Reporting and received two awards for feature writing from Women in Communications.