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Title

Vanity fair's writers on writers / edited by Graydon Carter ; with an introduction by David Friend.

Publication

• New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carter, Graydon
• Hitchens, Christopher.
• Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996.
• Cheever, Susan.
• Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
• Morris, Willie.
• Tyler, Anne.
• Amis, Martin.
• Wolcott, James, 1952-
• Kashner, Sam.
• Bosworth, Patricia.
• Berg, A. Scott (Andrew Scott).
• Lewis, Michael.
• McInerney, Jay.
• Elie, Paul.
• Atlas, James.
• Dickey, Christopher.
• Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
• Woodson, Jacqueline.
• Wolfe, Tom.

Description

viii, 424 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Offers essays from Vanity Fair writers on specific authors, explaining their influence on other writers and the culture at large.

Uniform Title

Vanity fair (New York, N.Y. : 1983)

Subjects

• Literature
• Literary collections
• Biographies
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Authors > Literary collections
• Authors > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Literature
• Biographies
• Literary collections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780143111764
• 0143111760

LCCN

^^2016031514

OCLC

• 945647388
• SCSB-10999963

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library