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Fritzie

The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper

by Amy Absher ...

Series series Women and the American West
One January day in 1923, a young boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. When the police arrived on the scene, they found the woman’s calling card, which read simply, “I am Fritzie Mann.” Yet Fritzie’s identity, as revealed in this compelling history, was anything but simple, and her death—eventually ruled a homicide—captured public attention for months. In ... Read more

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One January day in 1923, a young boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. When the police arrived on the scene, they found the woman’s calling card, which read simply, “I am Fritzie Mann.” Yet Fritzie’s identity, as revealed in this compelling history, was anything but simple, and her death—eventually ruled a homicide—captured public attention for months. In
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Fritzie

The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper

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Frieda "Fritizie" Mann had several identities during her brief life, and the mysterious circumstances of her death raise as many questions as they do answers. She was born in 1903 near the present border between Poland and Ukraine. She and her family were Jewish immigrants who traveled to San Diego to find security and prosperity. In the last year of her life, Mann became locally famous. She had ... Read more

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Frieda "Fritizie" Mann had several identities during her brief life, and the mysterious circumstances of her death raise as many questions as they do answers. She was born in 1903 near the present border between Poland and Ukraine. She and her family were Jewish immigrants who traveled to San Diego to find security and prosperity. In the last year of her life, Mann became locally famous. She had
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Hedy Lamarr

The Most Beautiful Woman in Film

by Ruth Barton ...

Series series Screen Classics
This true story of a Hollywood sex symbol's tumultuous life is "a real page-turner. Now, here is a book that would make a great movie" ( London Daily Mail).Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she escaped an unhappy marriage with arms dealer ... Read more

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This true story of a Hollywood sex symbol's tumultuous life is "a real page-turner. Now, here is a book that would make a great movie" ( London Daily Mail).Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences. Born Hedwig Kiesler, she escaped an unhappy marriage with arms dealer
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Tennessee Williams

Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

by John Lahr ...

**National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography CategoryNational Book Award Finalist2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre BiographyAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial AwardA Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014'USA Today: 10 Books We Loved ReadingWashington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from ... Read more

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**National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography CategoryNational Book Award Finalist2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre BiographyAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial AwardA Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014'USA Today: 10 Books We Loved ReadingWashington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from
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Butterfly in the Typewriter

The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

by Cory MacLauchlin ...

"An exhaustive biography. . . . Required reading for anyone interested in this enigmatic literary figure; indeed in Southern literature." — Washington TimesThe saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb's suggested ... Read more

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"An exhaustive biography. . . . Required reading for anyone interested in this enigmatic literary figure; indeed in Southern literature." — Washington TimesThe saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb's suggested
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The New York Times Book Review

125 Years of Literary History

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A “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers ... Read more

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A “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers
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The World of Tennessee Williams

by Richard Freeman Leavitt and Kenneth Holditch ...

The World of Tennessee Williams offers a survey of the life and career of one of America's greatest dramatists from his birth in 1911 to his death in 1983. Richard Leavitt was in a unique position to create such a volume since he was a friend of Tennessee's and followed his career closeup. Kenneth Holditch, who has undertaken the task of completing the text was a friend of Leavitt's and knew ... Read more

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The World of Tennessee Williams offers a survey of the life and career of one of America's greatest dramatists from his birth in 1911 to his death in 1983. Richard Leavitt was in a unique position to create such a volume since he was a friend of Tennessee's and followed his career closeup. Kenneth Holditch, who has undertaken the task of completing the text was a friend of Leavitt's and knew
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The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life

by Charles J. Shields ...

An "engrossing" biography of a brilliant novelist underappreciated in his own time who became a twenty-first-century bestseller, from the New York Times–bestselling author ( The New Yorker).When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet the quietly powerful tale of Midwestern college professor William Stoner, whose ... Read more

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An "engrossing" biography of a brilliant novelist underappreciated in his own time who became a twenty-first-century bestseller, from the New York Times–bestselling author ( The New Yorker).When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet the quietly powerful tale of Midwestern college professor William Stoner, whose
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Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism

by Joanna Scutts ...

The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideasOn a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world.It was the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a secret social club*.* Its members were ... Read more

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The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideasOn a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world.It was the first meeting of “Heterodoxy,” a secret social club*.* Its members were
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In Search of the Blues

by Marybeth Hamilton ...

Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight.In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only ... Read more

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Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight.In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only
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Alfred Hitchcock's America

by Murray Pomerance ...

Series series America Through the Lens
With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and ... Read more

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With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and
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Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage

A True Story of Murder in San Diego's Jazz Age

by James Stewart ...

This "fast-paced, thoughtful true-crime" examines the cultural shifts of Jazz Age America through a beautiful dancer's mysterious and scandalous death ( Kirkus, starred review).In January 1923, twenty-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the dancer's barely clad body washed up on Torrey Pines ... Read more

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This "fast-paced, thoughtful true-crime" examines the cultural shifts of Jazz Age America through a beautiful dancer's mysterious and scandalous death ( Kirkus, starred review).In January 1923, twenty-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the dancer's barely clad body washed up on Torrey Pines
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