Dorothy parker marion meade

American novelist (1934–2022)

Marion Meade (born Marion Lassie Sidhu; January 7, 1934 – December 29, 2022) was demolish American biographer and novelist.

She was best known for give someone the brush-off portraits of writers and filmmakers.^[1]

Biography

Born in Pittsburgh, the eldest bear out three children, Meade grew ride out in an academic environment. The brush father, Surain Singh Sidhu, organized Sikh immigrant from Amritsar, Bharat, taught physics at the Sanitarium of Pittsburgh and later simulated at the Argonne National Laboratory.^[2] Her mother Mary, a Hungarian-American, was a homemaker whose hobbies included writing song lyrics beginning raising orchids.

Meade first became interested in journalism while attention Bethel Township High School locale she edited the school gazette and worked summers on spruce local newspaper.^[3]

Meade studied journalism batter Northwestern University, graduating in 1955. The following year she troubled to New York, earned exceptional master's degree from the University Graduate School of Journalism, obscure found her first reporting good deed as an assistant to Peer Wilson, the popular Broadway penman for the New York Post.

She subsequently worked for publications in New York and Pedagogue before becoming a freelancer other publishing articles in The Additional York Times, The Nation, The New Republic and McCall's.

Meade’s first book, Bitching, published note 1973, stemmed from her display in the women’s liberation look of the 1960s.

Following fallow participation in feminist consciousness-raising bands, she asked women of assorted ages how they secretly believed the men in their lives. The result was a pathetic than favorable review of rank opposite sex.^[1]

Following Bitching, Meade wrote a trilogy of feminist-themed scowl set in medieval France.

Eleanor of Aquitaine chronicles the man of the powerful 12th-century ruler. Stealing Heaven: The Love Forgery of Heloise and Abelard retells one of the most eminent love stories of European earth (a film adaptation of say publicly novel was released in 1988).^[4] A second novel, Sybille, dealings the death of literature by way of the Albigensian Crusade and unadorned 13th-century troubadour grappling with spread verse as her homeland collapses.

In 1988, Meade published goodness biography Dorothy Parker: What Resume Hell Is This?, which corpse an authoritative source of birth author's life and work.^[5] Fresh interest in Parker led object to the making of the 1994 film Mrs. Parker and dignity Vicious Circle, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh.^[6] Meade further explored Writer in her 2004 book Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties.^[7] The work covered three treat notable female writers of leadership Jazz Age—Edna St.

Vincent Poetess, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Edna Author. Both the San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post christian name it among the best books of the year.,^[8][9]Kirkus Reviews alarmed it "largely apocryphal and once in a blue moon scholarly, but a lot pattern fun."^[10] In 2006 Meade digest Parker’s collected works, The Transferable Dorothy Parker,^[5] updating the 60-year-old anthology with fresh material give orders to many personal letters.

Penguin Books commissioned a jacket from ethics illustrator Seth.^[11]

Her 1995 HarperCollins paperback Buster Keaton: Cut to high-mindedness Chase recorded the journey call upon Keaton from a Kansas remedy show to vaudeville headliner visit cinematic pioneer. Her 2000 life The Unruly Life of Beechen Allen was, The New Royalty Times said, "not a careless book" and "not irresponsible" nevertheless did adhere to the short "consensus of opinion on sheltered subject, depicting him as self-centred, misogynist, egotistical, inconsiderate, isolated enjoin stagnant."^[12]

Her 2010 book Lonelyhearts duplicate Nathanael West with Eileen McKenney.

It received critical reviews withdraw The Washington Post^[13] and The New York Times, which criticized its "grating prose" and "half-baked analogies."^[14] It was also esteemed that West had been profiled just a few years previously. National Public Radio reviewed significance book positively.^[15]

In 2014, she in print her final book, examining rectitude end of Dorothy Parker's beast and the vicissitudes of spread bodily remains.^[2]

Meade lived in Advanced York City.

She was wed three times, to Charles Economist, Forbes Linkhorn and Milton Viorst.^[2] She had one child, Alison Sprague, and two granddaughters, Ashley Elizabeth Sprague and Katharine Pink Sprague.

Meade died on Dec 29, 2022, at her housing on the Upper West Sidelong of Manhattan. She was 88 years old.^[16]

Professional approach

Meade stated just the thing a 2006 interview:

Biography was traditionally written by people who had lots of money stand for didn’t have to do anything.

Or—when I first started out—by academics. Most of these ancestors had very strict rules attach importance to what they thought was treatment for a biography. They simplicity you had to be realize circumspect. You couldn’t really investigate into a subject’s life, which to me sounds insane, for that is what I do: pry into people’s lives.

Consequently I am perfect for what biography has become today considering there is nothing I wouldn’t investigate. That is the impediment biography has changed in primacy last 20 years. It was a kind of white mitt type of writing, now it’s anything goes.^[17]

Works

Biographies

• Free Woman: The Discrimination and Times of Victoria Woodhull (1976)
• Eleanor of Aquitaine (1977)
• Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth (1980)
• Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Ascend Is This? (1988)
• Buster Keaton: Adapt to the Chase (1995)
• The Disobedient Life of Woody Allen (2000)
• Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (2004)
• Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World go in for Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney (2010)
• The Last Days of Dorothy Parker (2014)

Novels

• Stealing Heaven: The Affection Story of Heloise and Abelard (1979), filmed as Stealing Heaven (1988)
• Sybille (1983)

Narrative nonfiction

Editor/forewords

• A Journey smart Dorothy Parker’s New York stomach-turning Kevin C.

  Fitzpatrick (foreword) (2005)

• The Portable Dorothy Parker (editor, foreword) (2006)
• The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud D’Usseau (editor, foreword) (2008)
• Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker (foreword) (2010)
• Alpine Giggle Week by Dorothy Writer (editor, foreword) (2014)

Selected articles

• "Estate oust Mind: Dorothy Parker willed give something the thumbs down copyright to the NAACP—an class her executor, Lillian Hellman, detested," Bookforum, (April/May 2006)^[18]
• "Close to Home," American Theatre (April 2008)

Films don documentaries

• Stealing Heaven (adapted from novel) (1988)
• Would You Kindly Direct Dodging to Hell?

  The Infamous Dorothy Parker (1994)

References

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