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ANECDOTES about ELEANOR BERRY by Rozanne Robinson, a freelance jounalist
Eleanor in Court as well as general biographical details INCLUDING attractive personality traits and posing as a consultant psychiatrist and her ability to relieve Depression in others.
At Gida Ratner's trial, Berry was ferociously cross-examined for three whole days, and actually enjoyed it, comparing her cross-courtroom sparring match, with a stimulating game of tennis, without having to exert herself, running!
Having come to terms with the loss of her two close friends, Berry's literary career is now her priority and her passionate love. She works mainly at night and for periods during the day, as well.
Some say that Berry is impatient and that her personality can sometimes appear formidable. It is widely said that she evokes the love of men more than that of women, and the love of children more than that of adults.
However, she is deeply compassionate towards those who suffer from depressive illness, and when such people seek her out, her patience with them, is infinite, as is her incomprehensible ability to shake off their gloom. It has even been said that she has "healing hands" which baffles her as she has had no medical training. She intends to give a percentage from the sale of her books to helping depressed patients.
In the early seventies, Berry was sacked from her clerical job in a psychiatric hospital, for putting on a white coat and posing as a consultant psychiatrist. So brazenly convincing was she, that a desperately sick woman, wishing to slit her own throat, was told by Berry to lie down on a couch, and was somehow prevented by Berry from committing suicide, or even wishing to do so.
Her fourth book, Your Father Died on the Gallows has recently been published in Russian and its black humour has already delighted a few of her Russian readers. She has had a review in a Russian publication in which her psychological insight was compared with that of Dostoievsky's, even if her comical themes are less lugubrious.
Those who know Eleanor Berry well say that she has been something of a cult figure on and off throughout her life. Apparently, when she was a child, many of her classmates addressed her as "Jesus"!
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