Hirschfeld: The Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XRGMML4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 166 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Finding her name in his pictures became a national pastime; finding her is a far more interesting pursuit.) He died in 2003 at ninety-nine. His distinctive drawings appeared in TheNew York Times and other publications for more than seventy-five years. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood, politics, and notably the theater: Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. He had three wives, a formidable agent, and a daughter, Nina, the most famous little girl no one knows. He drove until he was ninety-eight and always found a parking space. J. “If you live long enough,” he liked to say, “everything happens.” It did—and, g
Her books include Once Upon a Telephone, Threads (with designer Joseph Abboud), Sister Sets, and Gracie Mansionwith mayoral drawings by Al Hirschfeld. In magazines she has profiled such institutions as ‘21,’ the Russian Tea Room, the Staten Island Ferry, Madame Tussaud
"Al Hirschfeld's caricatures, especially and gloriously of key theater people, graced the pages of the New York Times and other publications for more than 75 years. But there was more to his life, as shown by Stern. Who else threw dinner parties twice a week and drove a car until age 98?" Library Journal, May Nonfiction Pick"Much-needed, affectionate, and entertaining As the first substantive biography of Hirschfeld, this will be welcomed by art and Broadway lovers alike." Kirkus R