Herbert R. Lottman, Author . I.B. Tauris $27.50 (310p) ISBN 978-1-86064-896-0
Lottman (Man Ray's Montparnasse
), former European correspondent for PW
, delivers an intriguing history of the French family-controlled tire company that had its beginnings in 1832, when two cousins opened a factory in the small central French...
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author Gingko Press $24.95 (848p) ISBN 978-3-927258-06-8
A highly acclaimed biography of the French novelist and philosopher. (May)
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author Halo Books $14.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-9622874-4-2
PW international correspondent Lottman, long based in Paris, chronicles the political involvement of such influential artists and intellectuals as Picasso, Breton, Gide, Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus in the '30s and '40s. ``A model piece of social...
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $30 (430p) ISBN 978-0-06-016520-8
The biographer of Flaubert, Colette, Petain and Camus here delivers an engrossing narrative account of one of the most traumatizing events of WW II. With a sharp eye for irony and incongruity, Lottman depicts the darkening of the City of Light...
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author Little Brown and Company $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-316-53361-4
The celebrated French writer, who emerged from a small Burgundy town a rustic innocent to take Paris by storm and eventually become a national monument, had surely one of the strangest lives of any literary figure. Married to her dominating ``collabo
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author Fromm International $11.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-88064-120-3
``Working with materials only recently made available, including the novelist's uncensored letters, Lottman painstakingly reconstructs Flaubert's strange and meticulous life in vivid detail,'' lauded PW , calling this a ``superb biography.''...
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author . Abrams $29.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4333-9
With Neil Baldwin's definitive 1991 biography, an autobiography and any number of scholarly monographs available, one might question the need for another book on the great modernist photographer. What sets Lottman's compact and breezy study...
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author Little Brown and Company $24.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-316-53342-3
Lottman's considerable reputation as a chronicler of French literary and intellectual lifehe has published an admired study of Camus and a book about Parisian intellectuals in the 1930s and '40s ( The Left Bank )will be further enhanced by this...
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $9.99 (396p) ISBN 978-0-517-59229-8
Lottman, until now primarily a literary biographer with books on Camus, Flaubert and Colette, widens his focus here to embrace a huge subject over a colossal time span: the banking family, originating in a Frankfurt ghetto, that came to great...
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-04940-9
Lottman, an American who lives in France (and is PW's international correspondent) has in his past three books, including this one, been creating a major work of French history: examining the state of the country just before, during, and immediately
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Herbert R. Lottman, Author St. Martin's Press $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-14636-8
When nearly 70 in 1897 (he died in 1905), Verne observed, ""I'm working steadily as always, functioning like a machine, and I don't let the furnace cool."" Such deskbound industry doesn't make for animated biography, but Lottman's ""exploratory...
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