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Paula Uruburuauthor profile |
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| url | http://www.goodreads.com/profile/puruburu | |||
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| born | February 26, 1957 | |||
| gender | female | |||
| place of birth | Queens, New York | |||
| website | http://www.americaneve.com | |||
| genre | Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography, Horror | |||
| influences | Flannery O'Connor, Poe, Dickinson, Edward Gorey, Woody Allen, Diane Arbus | |||
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about this author
I'm in the Summer Reading Issue of the NY Times Book Review today!! My book, AMERICAN EVE (Riverhead Penguin) is a biography of the first "It" girl Evelyn Nesbit and her role in the crime of the century. An English Prof. at Hofstra University, I love the Gilded Age, the Gothic and Grotesque, pop culture, and photography/film history. I've consulted for A&E, PBS, + the History Channel. Of Basque Irish descent, my roots are in Brooklyn, Bilbao, County Cork and Massapequa (which Jerry Seinfeld says its Native American for"by the mall”) I live in a haunted house on Long Island and hope I don't end up in the touring "Bodies" exhibition any time soon. http://www.hofstra.edu/home/ne... |
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event: Writers on the Vine
date: August 24, 2008 12:00PM location: Palmer Vineyards, Aquebogue (North Fork, LI), NY, United States description: Books and wine -- a perfect combination. books by Paula Uruburucombine editionsavg rating: 4.14 | 35 ratings | 1 distinct work
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of te Century (Biographies & Memoirs)
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she was “the American Eve” who proved too much of a temptation for famed architect Stanford White, shot to death in the “New Garden” he had created at Madison Square by Nesbit’s demented millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw. She was the star witness in the first sensational "trial of the century," and tragically, almost as quickly as her star rose, America’s first super model, sex-goddess, and bona-fide celebrity fell victim to the very culture that created and consumed her.
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Paula said "yes" to attending the event: Writers on the Vine. date: August 24, 2008 12:00PM location: Palmer Vineyards, Aquebogue (North Fork, LI), NY, United States description: Books and wine -- a perfect combination. | |||
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Paula said:
"It is reviewed in the April 2008 Vogue, May O!, May 11th LA Times. It's in the June 1st New York Times Summer Reads Book Review. You can hear my podcast with the Washington Post BookTalk on their website.
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. "
— Flannery O'Connor
— Flannery O'Connor
"Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life."
— Dorothy Parker
— Dorothy Parker
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"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Authors Society
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This group is for writers to plug their books.
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Memoirs and Biographies We Love
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— last activity 2 days ago, 02:00PM
A place to share memoirs, biographies, autobiographies (and maybe even fiction-based-in-reality) that you have enjoyed!
Our History
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This group is for anyone who is interested in history - biographies, narratives, hard history, historical fiction, alternate history, etc. - to share ...more
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For those with a love/hate relationship to seeing their favorite books on film.
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