"DOROTHY WAS A LADY OF GREAT INTEGRITY, SHE WROTE ALL OF THESE VOLUMES. THE WORK GIVEN TO HER WAS INSPIRED AND SANCTION BY GOD HIMSELF UPON READING THESE VOLUMES IT IS CLEAR THAT THIS GIFT OF WORDS IS FROM ABOVE. THESE VOLUMES WERE WRITTEN TO INSPIRE, ENLIGHTEN AND ENCOURAGE, WHICH IS WHAT DOROTHY DID IN LIFE. THIS WOMAN OF GOD HAD A PASSION FOR ALL PEOPLE, RACES AND CREEDS, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. SHE SERVED AS A COUNSELOR FOR THE LORD. ADVISING THOSE IN NEED OF TRUTH AND SEEKING A PEACE OF MIND. SHE ONLY SAW ONE OF HER INSPIRATIONAL POEMS PUBLISHED BEFORE SHE LEFT TO BE "WITH THE FATHER. HER WORK LEAVES A LEGACY OF WISDOM TO THOSE WHO APPRECIATE AND SEEK WISDOM IN THAT, HER WORK IS ACCOMPLISHED."

My Life was written in Moscow in 1921-1922, when Chagall was thirty-five years old. Although long out-of-print, it remains one of the most extraordinarily inventive and beautifully told of all autobiographies. The text is accompanied by twenty plates which Chagall prepared especially to illustrate his life story. Together, the words and pictures paint an incomparable portrait of one of the greatest painters of this century, and of the now vanished milieu which inspired him.