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Jan 1, 1929 — —· 97 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · CARICATURES AND CARTOONS · FICTION

Edward Sorel

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THE POPULARITY OF BIOGRAPHY shows no sign of abating.

— from Literary Lives, 2000

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Mary Astor's Purple diary

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In 1936 newspapers were ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor; the story pushed Hitler and Franco off the front pages. George S. Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man to boot, had been Astor's lover. The scandal revolved around Mary's diary, which her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, had found when they were still together. Mary, he claimed, had not only kept a tally of all her extramarital affairs but graded them-- and he already alerted the press in order to obtain a divorce and get custody of their daughter. Sorel provides all the juicy details of this particular slice of Hollywood Babylon, including Mary's life as a child star, and her teenage love affair with the much older John Barrymore.

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The mural at the Waverly Inn

2008

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Provides a close-up look at the witty, colorful mural created by Edward Sorel for New York's Greenwich Village landmark, the Waverly Inn, capturing forty key figures from Greenwich Village's past--including Walt Whitman, Andy Warhol, Willa Cather, Norman Mailer, and others--accompanied by portrait vignettes of their lives.

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Literary Lives

2000

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"David Ellis meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness. The aim of the book is to uncover the principles which biographers adopt in their efforts to make sense of others' lives whilst at the same time ensuring that their own narratives remain coherent."--Jacket.

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