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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1956
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
409 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is more than a biography of the great humorist from Niles, Michigan. In a penetrating full-length portrait, Donald Elder has explored Ring Lardner's whole world-the vibrant and inventive times in which he lived, the unforgettable people who surrounded him, and the impudent words that came from his typewriter. At the height of Lardner's fame in the middle twenties he was known simultaneously as a baseball reporter unlike any the world had ever...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author tells her family's history in photographs and words, after sorting through a box of old papers that revealed scandals, alcohol and domestic abuse, affairs, family land ownership, and racial complications.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1961
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, first published in 1961, is biography of the first-lady, from her early childhood to her meeting and marriage with John F. Kennedy. The book ends with the family's move into the White House (and before the President's tragic assassination in November 1963). Author Mary Rensselaer Thayer worked closely with Mrs. Kennedy to produce the book, and it is reported that Jacqueline prepared much of the initial draft. Included are...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c1966
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
282 p. : ill
Language
English
Description
Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century. He not only always maintained the appearance of an English country gentleman, but was also an everyday sort of man, both in his life and his paintings. Yet he is ranked as one of America's greatest painters. The reason is not hard to discover, for Winslow Homer's powerful epic statements spoke for America with a breadth that few other artists have achieved....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School, written by the son of the artist behind the popular strips "Prince Valiant" and "Big Ben Bolt," explores the achievements and pop-culture influence of these artists in the aftermath of World War II.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old...