Sign in with Facebook
9 books
|
131 friends
2,713 books
|
1,881 friends
3,287 books
|
142 friends
947 books
|
62 friends
5,685 books
|
299 friends
15 books
|
337 friends
1,064 books
|
384 friends
32,144 books
|
2,949 friends
More friends…
Marion is following 0 people
Marion Meade
Goodreads author profile
born
in Pittsburgh, The United States
genre
member since
February 2010
An ingenious dual biography of a classic American author and an unlikely literary muse.
The romance between novelist Nathanael West (1903-1940) and Eileen McKenney (1911-1940) was tragically brief. They met in October 1939, married six months later and died in a car accident shortly before Christmas 1940. Consequently, only a fraction of the latest biography by Meade (Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gi... Read more of this blog post »
The romance between novelist Nathanael West (1903-1940) and Eileen McKenney (1911-1940) was tragically brief. They met in October 1939, married six months later and died in a car accident shortly before Christmas 1940. Consequently, only a fraction of the latest biography by Meade (Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gi... Read more of this blog post »
|
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
— published 1987 — 15 editions |
|
|
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
— published 2004 — 8 editions |
|
|
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
— published 1977 — 10 editions |
|
|
Stealing Heaven
— 8 editions |
|
|
The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography
— published 2000 — 12 editions |
|
|
Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker
by Marion Meade (Goodreads Author) , Lorna Raver — published 2006 — 7 editions |
|
|
Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase
— published 1995 — 3 editions |
|
|
Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
— published 2010 — 4 editions |
|
|
Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth
— published 1980 — 4 editions |
|
|
Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull
— published 1976 — 5 editions |
|
Upcoming Events
No scheduled events.
Add an event.
LONELYHEARTS: THE SCREWBALL WORLD OF NATHANAEL WEST AND EILEEN MCKENNEY (Biographies & Memoirs)
1 chapters
—
updated Feb 22, 2010 01:57pm
Description:
A dual biography of the novelist Nathanael West and his wife, heroine of My Sister Eileen and Wonderful Town
Marion's Recent Updates
"
I stopped reading after the first third. There was nothing about Violet Epps that endears her to you, and it is equally unlikely that Dorothy Parker would have had any sympathy for her. The author failed to convince me that this shrinking Violet w...
"
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Marion Meade
liked
Amanda's review of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin:
"
Larson has a wonderful way with historical narrative and a great nose for the good story lurking in the dusty archives; and in this case he has come upon a fresh angle on one of THE big stories of twentieth-century history – the (should have been)...
"
Read more of this review »
|
|
"Two stars is overrating A Man of Parts.
It would rate five stars in the category Books Too Boring To Finish." |
|
"Peter Feibleman’s loving memoir is a useful companion to the latest Hellman biography, “A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian H...more
"
|
|
|
Marion Meade
rated a book 3 of 5 stars
|
|
| A Pulitzer-winning biographer (the life of poet Louise Bogan) uses her own family background for a novel about Hollywood. Quite interesting if you know the real-life identities of her characters, less so if you don't. Still, a lot of time and effort...more | |
|
Marion Meade added Goodreads to their Facebook Timeline
Add your books to Timeline!
learn more |
|
|
Jun 24, 2012 11:47am
|
|
"Remember the protective ring that faced Ann Waldron with her Eudora Welty biography."
|
|
"
Even if you have Marilyn Monroe fatigue, you should read Lois Banner's book. She had access to new primary sources--much of it in a filing cabinet that only recently became accessible to biographers. Banner generously mentions that she drew on my...
"
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Marion Meade
joined the group
Biography
|
|
|
Marion Meade
liked
Nette's review of Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney:
"
An unusual and very entertaining double biography. Unusual because the two subjects don't meet until almost the very end (and then promptly die together); entertaining because of the wonderful depictions of New York and the Midwest and Paris and H...
"
Read more of this review »
|
|
Polls
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audiobooks: Winter 2010 | 185 | 220 | Apr 01, 2010 08:04pm | |
| Bright Young Things: Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin...Chapters 1-4 | 10 | 14 | May 12, 2011 09:09pm | |
| Bright Young Things: Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin...Chapters 5-8 | 2 | 6 | May 18, 2011 05:45pm | |
| Bright Young Things: Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin...Chapters 9-11 | 3 | 6 | May 19, 2011 09:10am | |
| Bright Young Things: Marion Meade - Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Whole Book Thread) | 34 | 23 | May 23, 2011 04:05pm | |
| Bright Young Things: The Flapper | 9 | 45 | Oct 19, 2012 11:06pm | |
| The History Book ...: WOMEN'S MOVEMENT | 84 | 203 | Apr 28, 2013 09:16am |
Biography
— 15 members
— last activity Jul 22, 2012 09:36am
A group for avid readers and writers of biography
