| Lives and Letters Contributor(s): Gottlieb, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374298823 ISBN-13: 9780374298821 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Literary Collections | Letters |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2010038530 |
| Physical Information: 1.41" H x 6.39" W x 9.16" (1.49 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times. From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins. From dance and theater, Isadora Duncan and Margot Fonteyn, Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. In Hollywood, Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, Douglas Fairbanks and Lillian Gish, Tallulah Bankhead and Katharine Hepburn, Mae West and Anna May Wong. In New York, Diana Vreeland, the Trumps, and Gottlieb's own take on the contretemps that followed his replacing William Shawn at The New Yorker. And so much more . . . |
Contributor Bio(s): Gottlieb, Robert: - Robert Gottlieb has been the editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker. He is the author of Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhard, George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker, and Lives and Letters (FSG, 2011), and is the dance critic for The New York Observer. |