Susan Quinn, Author . Perseus/Merloyd Lawrence $26 (295p) ISBN 978-0-7382-0182-5
This book is to experimental drug trials what Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On
was to the AIDS epidemic. In resonant journalistic prose, Quinn (A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney; Marie Curie: A Life) manages to capture the day-by-
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Susan Quinn, Author . Walker $25.99 (325p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1698-9
Quinn (Marie Curie
) does a superb job of recounting the rise and fall of the Federal Theatre Project, a wing of FDR's WPA meant to employ playwrights and actors while providing diversion and inspiration for Depression-ravaged Americans. Quinn shows
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Susan Quinn, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $12.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-201-15573-0
``This intimate portrait of the feminist psychoanalyst who shook the Freudian establishment links the inner woman to the public figure, rebel and maverick,'' declared PW , calling the book ``the fullest, most insightful biography of Horney to date.''
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Susan Quinn, Author Simon & Schuster $29.5 (509p) ISBN 978-0-671-67542-4
Quinn (A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney) presents here a carefully researched, well-rounded study of Curie (1867-1934), the physicist credited with isolating radium. Born Marie Sklodowska in Poland, she left her home to study in Paris,...
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Susan Quinn, read by Kimberly Farr. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 14 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-7352-8938-3
Few know of Eleanor Roosevelt’s decades-long relationship with Lorena “Hick” Hickok, an Associated Press reporter assigned to cover her in the early years of F.D.R.’s presidency. Though previous biographies have marginalized or disregarded this...
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Susan Quinn, illus. by Marina Ruiz. Words & Pictures, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7112-5534-0
A curly-haired, brown-skinned child celebrates their bespectacled father’s everyday actions, including baking, grocery shopping, and giving the child a bath, in this sweetly rhyming picture book. From the first-person perspective, Quinn surveys...
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