Meryle Secrest
Born
Bath, England, The United Kingdom
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Stephen Sondheim: A Life
10 editions
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1998
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
9 editions
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1992
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Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography
8 editions
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2014
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The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer
6 editions
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2019
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Modigliani: A Life
9 editions
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2011
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Duveen: A Life in Art
3 editions
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2004
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Leonard Bernstein: A Life
7 editions
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1994
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Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers
6 editions
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2001
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Salvador Dali
7 editions
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1946
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Between Me and Life: A Biography of Romaine Brooks
2 editions
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1974
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“First take a play that you like and musicalize it. Then take a play that you like but you feel has flaws and try to improve them, and musicalize it,” Sondheim recalled him saying. “Then he said, ‘Take something that is not a play but that somebody else has written, a novel or a short story, so that you don’t have to invent the characters or plot, and musicalize that, make it into a play. Dramatize it. And then finally write an original, your own story, and dramatize that.”
― Stephen Sondheim: A life
― Stephen Sondheim: A life
“the disappearance of an audience that had supported experimentation and made such works financial, as well as critical, successes. The decline of liberal-arts teaching in schools and colleges meant that the new audience was less cultured and intellectually oriented; wedded to television and movies, it wanted to be entertained rather than challenged.”
― Stephen Sondheim: A life
― Stephen Sondheim: A life
“Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.”
― Modigliani: A Life
― Modigliani: A Life
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