Phyllis Grosskurth has produced the first biography of Melanie Klein; for this achievement she deserves to be given serious credit. She has done extensive research into Klein's publications, into the minutes of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and into a vast number of private letters which were in the possession of Klein's family. She also discovered a draft of an incomplete autobiography and has conducted numerous personal interviews with Klein's family, friends, colleagues, and analysands. She writes well and