Mary V. Dearborn, Author . Houghton Mifflin $28 (382p) ISBN 978-0-618-12806-8
Dearborn celebrates Guggenheim, the iconoclastic doyenne of abstract expressionism, in this appreciative, thorough biography. Born in 1898 to a "poor" branch of the family, Guggenheim moved to Europe in 1920, where she befriended such...
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Mary V. Dearborn, Author Simon & Schuster $24.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67704-6
Lover, luster, painter, domineering husband, encyclopedia salesman, voyeur, massive egotist, self-proclaimed holy man, autocrat, iconoclast--Henry Miller's disparate selves are not readily reconciled. In this revelatory, incisive biography, his real
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Mary V. Dearborn, Author Touchstone Books $13 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-77982-5
In this revelatory, incisive biography, the expatriate author's real life turns out to be even more fascinating than the fictionalized autobiographies that are his novels. Photos. (Aug.)
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Mary V. Dearborn, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-68396-5
Escaping what she saw as her bourgeois existence as the wife of an Oregon dentist, Louise Bryant (1885-1936) ran off to New York City's Greenwich Village with radical journalist John Reed, who became her second husband. They preached and practiced...
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Mary V. Dearborn, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-395-73655-5
Setting a standard for lucidity and general competence that even Mailer's authorized biographer will be hard pressed to reach, Dearborn's unauthorized life tells how the writer of The Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song ""ran with his...
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Mary V. Dearborn. Knopf, $25 (752p) ISBN 978-0-307-59467-9
Dearborn (Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim) revisits one of America's most popular writers with insight and finesse, in this rich, detailed biography of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). Hemingway came to fame in 1920s Paris amid the...
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