Shoot the Widow
Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject
The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: Shoot the widow.”In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a life” is like working one's way through a maze, full of fall starts, dead ends, and occasional clear passages leading to the next part of the puzzle.She writes about her first book, a life of Romaine Brooks, and how she was led to Nice and given invaluable letters by her subject's heir that were slid across the table, one at…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-49786-4
- EAN: 9780307497864
- Produktnummer: 15732425
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'430 KB
Über den Autor
Meryle Secrest was born and educated in Bath, England, and now lives in Washington, D.C. She is the author of nine biographies and is the recipient of the 2006 National Humanities Medal.
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