Lovers: Great Romances of Our Time Through the Eyes of Legendary Writers

by John Miller (Editor), Aaron Kenedi (Editor), Diane Ackerman (Introduction)

This collection of photographs and tributes celebrates the most passionate and romantic aspects of life and the great couples of our era. The book commemorates long and happy marriages, star-crossed adulterers and memorable fiery affairs. Couples include Bogart and Bacall and the McCartneys.

includes:
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall/ L. Bacall -- F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald/ Tom Gliatto -- Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange/ John Connor -- John & Jacqueline Kennedy/ Christopher Andersen -- Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo/ Martha Zamora -- Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe/ Donald Spoto -- Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward/ A. E. Hotchner -- John Lennon, Yoko Ono/ Ray Coleman -- Charles & Anne Morrow Lindbergh/ Laura Muha -- Jackson Pollack, Lee Krasner/ Deborah Solomon -- Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor/ Janet Cawley -- Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall/ Karen S. Schneider -- Prince Ranier, Princess Grace/ James Spada -- Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter/ J. and R. Carter -- Elvis & Priscilla Presley/ Kim Hubbard Duke & Duchess of Windsor/ Walter Isaacson -- Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais/ Randall Koral -- Dylan & Caitlin Thomas/ D. Thomas -- Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner/ Richard Jerome -- Bonnie & Clyde / Janet Wilson -- King Hussein & Queen Noor/ Dorpthy Rompalske -- Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood/ Edward Z. Epstein -- Paul & Linda McCartney/ Jordan Walker -- Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh/ Jesse Lasky, Jr. -- Ellen Degeneres, Anne Heche/ Hilary De Vries -- Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman/ Richard Lacayo -- Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt/ Doris K. Goodwin -- Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath/ A. Alvarez -- Paul & Julia Child/ Noel R. Fitch -- Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher/ T. Gallagher -- Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball/ Michael J. Neill -- Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy/ Carol Gelderman -- Sid Vicious, Mancy Spungen/ J. D. Reed. Ronald & Nanct Reagan/ Cynthia Sanz -- Louis Malle, Candice Bergen/ Roger Rosenblatt -- Clark Gable, Carole Lombard/ Sopheronia S. Gregory -- Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee/ Khephra Burns -- Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn/ K. Hepburn -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King/ Stephen B. Oates -- Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe/ Brenda Cullerton -- George Burns, Gracie Allen/ G. Burns -- Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden/ Elaine Cooper -- John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion/ John G. Dunne -- Jackie & Rachel Robinson/ Roger Wilkins -- Prince Philip & Queen Elizabeth/ James Collins -- Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir/ Larry Stevens -- Sonny & Cher/ Hilary de Vries -- Muhammad and Lonnie Ali/ Tessa Parker

Genres: Nonfiction

127 pages, Hardcover

First published October 8, 1999

About the author

John Miller has edited a number of intriguing anthologies for Chronicle Books, including Lust and White Rabbit. He runs Big Fish Books, a packaging company in San Francisco.

Reviews

[Amy]

A little disconcerting that so many of the couples split up. Nice photographs, though.