Edie: An American Biography
Jean Stein has worked as an editor for a number of magazines, including The Paris Review and Esquire. She is co-author, with George Plimpton, of American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy and in she became the editor of the literary journal Grand Street, until it ended in It was described by The New York Times as 'one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era'.
George Plimpton was an author, an actor and a literary patron. In he co-founded The Paris Review and his books, including Out of My League, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears, One More July, Shadow Box, The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, Truman Capote and The Bogey Man. He died in September
Review
An exceptionally seductive biography You can't put it down It has novelistic excitement ― Los Angeles Times Book Review
Through a kaleidoscope of seemingly fragmented voices, patterns form, giving brilliant definition to the very American tragedy of Edie Sedgwick, a womannot likely to be forgotten after this haunting portrait ― Publishers Weekly
There is no more classic summertime read ― New York Magazine
Jean Stein invented a form that many have tried to replicate since: the oral history biography. The voices in these pages give a sentimental education that is glamorous, dark, sexy, depraved, comical, and profound. Edie maps the follies and glories of an entire era―the Warhol s. -- Rachel Kushner
Book Description
A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick, by the writer Jean Stein
About the Author
Jean Stein (Author)
Jean Stein's father, Jules, founded MCA and she grew up in the golden years of Hollywood. At Jean's coming-out party, Judy Garland sang 'Over the Rainbow'; later she had an affair with William Faulkner, became an editor at The Paris Review, and was Elia Kazan's assistant on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Imme
Edie: American Girl
Edie Sedgwick was the Sixties' version of poor little rich girl, descended on both sides from men who founded the Colonies, families which remained prominent throughout American history. (A gander at will give you some idea.)
Her father was a Western artist of the heroic mold, a black sheep who raised his own family isolated on a vast ranch near Santa Barbara. (Edie, seventh of eight, was schooled on the property with her siblings and some of the ranch hands.) It was Olympus, and just as dysfunctional. Mental illness, suicide, etc. were just the beginning.
Edie went East as a teenager for hospitalization at Silver Hill, an iconic Massachusetts mental hospital, and after that, to cut a streak through East Coast coolness--first making a splash on Brattle Street in Cambridge,, then heading down to new YOrk. She was beautiful, fragile, unworldly/outrageous in a very Zelda Fitzgerald kind of way, she became a Vogue/Vreeland-designated 'Youthquaker'--symbolizing the zani
Edie: An American Biography
George Ames Plimpton was born March 18, He was educated first at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then spent four years at Harvard majoring in English and editing the Harvard Lampoon, followed by two at King's College, Cambridge. Before he left for Cambridge, he served as a tank driver in Italy for the U.S. Army from through After graduation, at about 27 years of age, Plimpton went with his friends to Paris. There they founded the Paris Review in and published poetry and short story writers and did interviews. In the '50s, Plimpton and staff came to New York, where they kept the Review going for half a century. The Review has published over issues. Plimpton also served as a volunteer for Robert Kennedy's presidential run and was walking in front of him as the candidate was assassinated in the kitchen of a Los Angeles hotel. Plimpton was known as a "participatory journalist". In order to research his books and articles, he quarterbacked in a pre-season NFL game, pitched to several all-stars (retiring Willie Mays and Richie Ashburn) in an exhibition prior to Baseball's All-Star game, performed as a trapeze artist for the Clyde Beat
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