Six Exceptional Women: Further Memoirs

by James Lord

James Lord continues his series of intimate portraits with a cast of female Alice B. Toklas, Getrude Stein, Marie-Laure de Noailles, the French actress Arletty, Errieta Perdikidi, and his own mother, Loise Bennett Lord.

372 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

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James Lord was an American writer. He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of the artists Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso (with whom he became acquainted in Paris during his Army service in the Second World War).

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love reading prose by James Lord (see A Giacometti Portrait and Some Remarkable Men), but this wasn't quite as good as his other books (especially the last chapter, about his mother, which is rather self-indulgent). Still, the previous chapters (about exceptional women such as Gertrude Stein and Marie-Laure de Noailles) were worthwhile.

[Claudia Gio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Le daría 3,5 estrellas, es un libro que va en creciendo, la última historia es buenísima y conmovedora

[Sketchbook · Rating 1 out of 5]

Further grandiosity and fictional gasps from de Lord.