Books by Daniel Mark Epstein and Complete Book Reviews
Daniel Mark Epstein, Author . Holt/Macrae $26 (300p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6727-9
Sexually implacable, perennially noncommittal and, by all accounts, possessed of an irresistible charisma, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay led a love life of Byronic proportions. The truth about her personal affairs was scarcely less fantastic than
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-45799-8
Poet and biographer Epstein (What Lips My Lips Have Kissed,
about Edna St. Vincent Millay) covers the same ground canvassed most recently, and more ably, by Roy Morris Jr. in his much-praised The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War
. Where...
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author . Ballantine $28 (559p) ISBN 978-0-345-47799-6
Poet and biographer Epstein (Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
) never explains the rationale for this reliable but familiar account of the Lincolns’ frequently tempestuous marriage. If he had access to previously...
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author Overlook Press $15.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-87951-435-8
Nine story-essays by 1977 Prix de Rome winner Epstein recall his ecumenical childhood with a Christian mother and Jewish father; the title recalls his family's holiday attention to both the Star of David and the Star of Bethlehem. According to PW , `
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author Mariner Books $18 (496p) ISBN 978-0-15-600093-2
A sensational biography of the celebrated early 20th-century evangelist. (May)
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author Overlook Press $13.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-87951-597-3
Epstein (Young Men's Gold) has two focusses in this short collection that tend to obstruct rather than enhance each other. There are domestic poems that deal with family members, children, a professor, a student. These are proficient, but, like the...
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author Collins $26.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-06-156544-1
This meticulous triple biography looks at Lincoln's three private secretaries, John Nicolay, John Hay and William O. Stoddard. Closer to Lincoln than almost anyone else, these trusted confidantes and advisers handled all of the president's...
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $27.95 (475p) ISBN 978-0-15-182688-9
At the height of her fame, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) could draw 5000 enthusiastic followers to her Los Angeles Angelus Temple to hear her charismatic preaching and to watch lavish reenactments of biblical scenes. With prodigious...
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author Overlook Press $19.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-87951-587-4
Epstein (Young Men's Gold) has two focusses in this short collection that tend to obstruct rather than enhance each other. There are domestic poems that deal with family members, children, a professor, a student. These are proficient, but, like the...
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $27 (437p) ISBN 978-0-374-21912-3
Dulcet-toned Nat King Cole is remembered best today for ballads such as ""Mona Lisa"" and ""Unforgettable,"" perhaps less so for his skills as a preeminent jazz pianist and composer. This respectful biography depicts a multitalented musician who--whe
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Harper, $27.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-180732-9
The aura that is the real masterpiece of a star dominates this raptly observant, occasionally besotted biography of folk-rock's troubador-prophet. Historian and poet Epstein (The Lincolns) structures his loose-jointed chronicle around exegeses of...
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Daniel Mark Epstein. Ballantine, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-0-345-54421-6
Epstein (The Ballad of Bob Dylan), a biographer, poet, and playwright, skillfully shows how the American Revolution divided communities and households, as would happen more famously during the Civil War. Benjamin Franklin’s family is Epstein’s case...
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Daniel Mark Epstein, Author, Daniel Mark Epstein, Other Overlook Press $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-87951-257-6
In 1977 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded the Prix de Rome in Literature to Epstein, a poet and creator of lyrical works in prose. In this collection, nine story-essays recall his boyhood home (unidentified) as blessed with the true...
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