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Publisher Summary 1
An anthology of biographical profiles from "The New Yorker" covers some of the most influential and infamous people of the century, from Ernest Hemingway and Mikhail Baryshnikov to George W. Bush and Edna Buchanan.
Publisher Summary 2
An updated anthology of biographical profiles from The New Yorkercovers some of the most influencial and infamous people of the century, from Ernest Hemingway and Legs Diamond to Adolf HItler and Edith Wharton, and has been expanded to include new profiles of country singer Lucinda Williams and venture-capitalist-turned designer Ed Weinberger. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Publisher Summary 3
One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorkerhas met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirties, such as Henry Luce and Isadora Duncan, and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, this collection of New Yorker Profiles presents readers with a portrait gallery of some of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. These Profiles are literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, and are unrivalled in their range, their variety of style, and their embrace of humanity.