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Marion Meade
Born
in Pittsburgh, The United States
January 07, 1934
Died
December 29, 2022
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Kirkus starred review for LONELYHEARTS: THE SCREWBALL WORLD OF NATHANAEL WEST AND EILEEN MCKENNEY
An ingenious dual biography of a classic American author and an unlikely literary muse.
The romance between novelist Nathanael West (1903-1940) and Eileen McKenney (1911-1940) was tragically brief. They met in October 1939, married six months later and died in a car accident shortly before Christmas 1940. Consequently, only a fraction of the latest biography by Meade (Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Read more of this blog post »
The romance between novelist Nathanael West (1903-1940) and Eileen McKenney (1911-1940) was tragically brief. They met in October 1939, married six months later and died in a car accident shortly before Christmas 1940. Consequently, only a fraction of the latest biography by Meade (Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Read more of this blog post »
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
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1987
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24 editions
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
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1977
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23 editions
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
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2004
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15 editions
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Stealing Heaven
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published
1985
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19 editions
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The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography
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published
2000
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23 editions
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Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase
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published
1995
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14 editions
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Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
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2010
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16 editions
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The Last Days of Dorothy Parker: The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman and How Death Can Be Hell on Friendship
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2014
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Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth
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1980
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9 editions
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Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull
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1976
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11 editions
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“But now I know the things I know, And do the things I do; And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you!”
― Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
― Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
“Hemingway concealed his hurt feelings but privately added Dorothy's name to his catalogue of people he disliked.”
― Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
― Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
“When an editor once tried to kill herself by diving in front of a subway train, Edna Chase was pained by her vulgarity. If a Vogue editor was forced to resort to suicide, she should have enough sense to swallow sleeping powders instead of leaving messes for the city sanitation department.”
― Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
― Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Polls
Wow! I'm so late with next months book poll. Sorry! January is one of our non-fiction months...biography/history. Vote for your choice. This is a quick one so it will end on Friday. Depending on the length of the book we choose, we may skip the first Tuesday in January for discussion.
Madame de Pompadour
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford
Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan
Edmund S. Morgan
King Arthur
Norma Lorre Goodrich
Norma Lorre Goodrich
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
Marion Meade
Marion Meade
Lucrezia Borgia
Sarah Bradford
Sarah Bradford
Queen Isabella
Alison Weir
Alison Weir
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Bright Young Things: Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin...Chapters 1-4 | 10 | 14 | May 12, 2011 09:09PM | |
| Bright Young Things: Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin...Chapters 5-8 | 2 | 6 | May 18, 2011 05:45PM | |
| Bright Young Things: Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin...Chapters 9-11 | 3 | 6 | May 19, 2011 09:10AM | |
| Bright Young Things: Marion Meade - Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Whole Book Thread) | 34 | 25 | May 23, 2011 04:05PM | |
| Bright Young Things: The Flapper | 9 | 59 | Oct 19, 2012 11:06PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: All Hallow’s Eve: Non-fiction nominations | 29 | 66 | Aug 28, 2013 04:58AM | |
| Bright Young Things: March 2014- Everybody was so Young by Amanda Vaill | 18 | 29 | Mar 25, 2014 04:50AM | |
| Bright Young Things: January 2015- Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West | 52 | 29 | Jan 29, 2015 03:42PM | |
The History Book ...:
ARCHIVE TWO: PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF ~
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6145 | 5112 | Sep 19, 2015 03:18AM | |
| Book Nook Cafe: Carol's 2015 Reads & Reviews | 167 | 90 | Jan 07, 2016 09:37AM |
