| Description |
viii, 424 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / by David Friend -- One Vanity Fair contrarian fondly recalls another. Dorothy Parker / by Christopher Hitchens -- On poets. W. H. Auden / by Joseph Brodsky -- E. E. Cummings / by Susan Cheever -- Marianne Moore / by Elizabeth Bishop -- On literary lions. Eudora Welty / by Willie Morris -- Reynolds Price / by Anne Tyler -- Saul Bellow / by Martin Amis -- Jack Kerouac / by James Wolcott -- Truman Capote / by Sam Kashner -- Norman Mailer / by Patricia Bosworth -- Ernest Hemingway / by A. Scott Berg -- Tom Wolfe / by Michael Lewis -- Distant shores. Paul Bowles / by Jay McInerney -- Gabriel García Márquez / by Paul Elie -- Primo Levi / by James Atlas -- Naguib Mahfouz / by Christopher Dickey -- Salman Rushdie / by Martin Amis -- Short takes. Willa Cather / by Truman Capote -- James Baldwin / by Jacqueline Woodson -- Roger Straus / by Tom Wolfe -- Ward Just / by David Halberstam -- Toni Morrison / by John Leonard -- Ishmael Beah / by Dave Eggers -- Robert Harris / by Nick Hornby -- Judy Blume / by Meg Wolitzer -- Wole Soyinka / by Nadine Gordimer -- Sonny Mehta / by Dave Eggers -- Christopher Hitchens / by Salman Rushdie -- A family affair. Joan Didion / by Lili Anolik -- John Gregory Dunne / by Dominick Dunne -- Dominick Dunne / by Mike Hogan -- Behind the best-sellers. Josephine Tey / by Francis Wheen -- Grace Metalious / by Michael Callahan -- Mary McCarthy / by Laura Jacobs -- Jacqueline Susann / by Amy Fine Collins -- Cormac McCarthy / by Richard B. Woodward -- Stieg Larsson / by Christopher Hitchens -- James Patterson / by Todd S. Purdum -- Donna Tartt / by Evgenia Peretz -- Memoir. Bosom Buddies / by Laura Z. Hobson -- His Jewish question / by Arthur Miller -- Darkness visible / by William Styron -- A final tale. Kay Thompson / by Marie Brenner. |
| Summary |
Offers essays from Vanity Fair writers on specific authors, explaining their influence on other writers and the culture at large. |
| Subject |
Authors -- Biography.
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Authors -- Literary collections.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Literature.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
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Authors. (OCoLC)fst00821688
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
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| Added Author |
Friend, David, writer of introduction.
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Carter, Graydon, editor.
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Hitchens, Christopher.
Dorothy Parker.
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Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996.
W.H. Auden.
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Cheever, Susan.
E.E. Cummings.
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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Marianne Moore.
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Morris, Willie.
Eudora Welty.
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Tyler, Anne.
Reynolds Price.
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Amis, Martin.
Saul Bellow.
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Wolcott, James, 1952-
Jack Kerouac.
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Kashner, Sam.
Truman Capote.
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Bosworth, Patricia.
Norman Mailer.
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Berg, A. Scott (Andrew Scott).
Ernest Hemingway.
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Lewis, Michael.
Tom Wolfe.
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McInerney, Jay.
Paul Bowles.
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Elie, Paul.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Atlas, James.
Primo Levi.
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Dickey, Christopher.
Naguib Mahfouz.
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Amis, Martin.
Salman Rushdie.
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Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
Willa Cather.
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Woodson, Jacqueline.
James Baldwin.
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Wolfe, Tom.
Roger Straus.
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| Added Title |
Vanity fair (New York, N.Y. : 1983)
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| ISBN |
9780143111764 (paperback) |
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0143111760 (paperback) |
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