Mary V Dearborn
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The life story of the bohemian socialite who rebelled against her famous family and became a renowned art collector. Peggy Guggenheim emerges in Mistress of Modernism as the ultimate self-invented woman, a cultural mover and shaker who broke away from her poor-little-rich-girl origins to shape a life for herself as the enfant terrible of the art world. Peggy's visionary Art of This Century gallery in New York, which brought together the European surrealist...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Norman Mailer is "our chronicler, our critic, our designated male chauvinist, our court jester, our devil's advocate, the thorn in our collective side," writes Mary V. Dearborn. Undeniably one of the most controversial figures of the past half-century, Mailer has also been one of the most influential. Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, once a candidate for mayor of New York City, a best-selling author at age twenty-three with The Naked and the...
8) Crazy cock
Author
Publisher
Grove Weidenfeld
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a writer bewildered by his independent wife and her female lover in Greenwich Village in the 1920s.