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100 1 $aSecrest, Meryle.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80082352
245 10 $aShoot the widow :$badventures of a biographer in search of her subject /$cMeryle Secrest.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2007.
300 $axii, 242 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"In her new book, Meryle Secrest writes about her triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a "life" is like working one's way through a maze, full of false starts, dead ends, and occasional clear passages leading to the next part of the puzzle." "She writes about her first book, a life of Romaine Brooks, and how she was led to Nice and given invaluable letters by her subject's heir that were slid across the table, one at a time; how she was led to the villa of Brooks's lover, Gabriele d'Annunzio (poet, playwright, and aviator), a fantastic mausoleum left untouched since the moment of his death seventy years before; to a small English village, where she uncovered a lost Romaine Brooks painting; and finally, to 20, rue Jacob, Paris, where Romaine's lover, Natalie Barney, had fifty years before entertained Cocteau, Gide, Proust, Colette, and others." "Among the other biographical (mis)adventures, Secrest reveals: how she tracked Salvador Dali to a hospital room, found him recovering from serious burns sustained in a mysterious fire, and learned that he was knee-deep in a scandal involving fake drawings and prints and surrounded by dangerous characters out of Murder, Inc. . . . and how she went in search of a subject's grave (Frank Lloyd Wright's) only to find that his body had been dug up to satisfy the whim of his last wife."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aBiographers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009117070
650 0 $aWomen biographers$zUnited States$vBiography.
651 0 $aWashington (D.C.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117387
651 0 $aBath (England)$vBiography.
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