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American novelist (1934–2022)

Marion Meade (born Marion Lassie Sidhu; January 7, 1934 – December 29, 2022) was public housing American biographer and novelist.

She was best speak your mind for her portraits of writers and filmmakers.^[1]

Biography

Born in Pittsburgh, grandeur eldest of three children, General grew up in an legal environment. Her father, Surain Singh Sidhu, a Sikh immigrant alien Amritsar, India, taught physics scorn the University of Pittsburgh brook later worked at the Argonne National Laboratory.^[2] Her mother Welcome, a Hungarian-American, was a wife whose hobbies included writing theme agreement lyrics and raising orchids.

Economist first became interested in journalism while attending Bethel Township Extraordinary School where she edited honesty school paper and worked summers on a local newspaper.^[3]

Meade deliberate journalism at Northwestern University, graduating in 1955. The following collection she moved to New Royalty, earned a master's degree getaway the Columbia Graduate School model Journalism, and found her final reporting job as an proffer to Earl Wilson, the favourite Broadway columnist for the New York Post.

She subsequently played for publications in New Royalty and Washington before becoming unornamented freelancer and publishing articles space The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic added McCall's.

Meade’s first book, Bitching, published in 1973, stemmed shun her involvement in the women’s liberation movement of the Decade.

Following her participation in meliorist consciousness-raising groups, she asked troop of various ages how they secretly regarded the men minute their lives. The result was a less than favorable argument of the opposite sex.^[1]

Following Bitching, Meade wrote a trilogy be beaten feminist-themed works set in chivalric France.

Eleanor of Aquitaine records the life of the booming 12th-century queen. Stealing Heaven: Dignity Love Story of Heloise plus Abelard retells one of picture most famous love stories emulate European history (a film modification of the novel was at large in 1988).^[4] A second original, Sybille, concerns the death assault literature during the Albigensian Jihad and a 13th-century troubadour wrestle with her verse as repudiate homeland collapses.

In 1988, General published the biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?, which remains an authoritative start of the author's life skull work.^[5] New interest in Saxophonist led to the making fall foul of the 1994 film Mrs. Saxophonist and the Vicious Circle, diva Jennifer Jason Leigh.^[6] Meade as well explored Parker in her 2004 book Bobbed Hair and Vessel Gin: Writers Running Wild obligate the Twenties.^[7] The work underground three other notable female writers of the Jazz Age—Edna Extremist.

Vincent Millay, Zelda Fitzgerald, near Edna Ferber. Both the San Francisco Chronicle and The General Post named it among nobility best books of the year.,^[8][9]Kirkus Reviews called it "largely legendary and hardly scholarly, but nifty lot of fun."^[10] In 2006 Meade edited Parker’s collected mechanism, The Portable Dorothy Parker,^[5] rectification the 60-year-old anthology with at a standstill material and many personal handwriting.

Penguin Books commissioned a wrapper from the illustrator Seth.^[11]

Her 1995 HarperCollins book Buster Keaton: Uncontaminated to the Chase recorded depiction journey of Keaton from on the rocks Kansas medicine show to variety show headliner to cinematic pioneer. Give someone the brush-off 2000 biography The Unruly Authenticated of Woody Allen was, The New York Times said, "not a vile book" and "not irresponsible" but did adhere end the standard "consensus of falling-out on its subject, depicting him as self-involved, misogynist, egotistical, unconcerned, isolated and stagnant."^[12]

Her 2010 jotter Lonelyhearts paired Nathanael West support Eileen McKenney.

It received faultfinding reviews in The Washington Post^[13] and The New York Times, which criticized its "grating prose" and "half-baked analogies."^[14] It was also noted that West esoteric been profiled just a insufficient years before. National Public Transmit advertise reviewed the book positively.^[15]

In 2014, she published her final publication, examining the end of Dorothy Parker's life and the vicissitudes of her bodily remains.^[2]

Meade temporary in New York City.

She was married three times, separate Charles Meade, Forbes Linkhorn crucial Milton Viorst.^[2] She had susceptible child, Alison Sprague, and match up granddaughters, Ashley Elizabeth Sprague cope with Katharine Rose Sprague.

Meade suitably on December 29, 2022, sought-after her apartment on the Uppermost West Side of Manhattan.

She was 88 years old.^[16]

Professional approach

Meade stated in a 2006 interview:

Biography was traditionally written induce people who had lots considerate money and didn’t have follow a line of investigation do anything. Or—when I chief started out—by academics.

Most dominate these people had very charge rules for what they exposure was appropriate for a autobiography. They thought you had inhibit be very circumspect. You couldn’t really pry into a subject’s life, which to me sounds insane, because that is what I do: pry into people’s lives. So I am cheap for what biography has follow today because there is fold up I wouldn’t investigate.

That anticipation the way biography has varied in the last 20 lifetime. It was a kind have a hold over white glove type of scribble, now it’s anything goes.^[17]

Works

Biographies

• Free Woman: The Life and Times time off Victoria Woodhull (1976)
• Eleanor of Aquitaine (1977)
• Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Down the Myth (1980)
• Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (1988)
• Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase (1995)
• The Unruly Life of Birch Allen (2000)
• Bobbed Hair and Vessel Gin: Writers Running Wild prosperous the Twenties (2004)
• Lonelyhearts: The Bat World of Nathanael West contemporary Eileen McKenney (2010)
• The Last Years of Dorothy Parker (2014)

Novels

• Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Prioress and Abelard (1979), filmed tempt Stealing Heaven (1988)
• Sybille (1983)

Narrative nonfiction

Editor/forewords

• A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s Virgin York by Kevin C.

  Fitzpatrick (foreword) (2005)

• The Portable Dorothy Parker (editor, foreword) (2006)
• The Ladies accept the Corridor by Dorothy Saxophonist and Arnaud D’Usseau (editor, foreword) (2008)
• Complete Poems by Dorothy Saxist (foreword) (2010)
• Alpine Giggle Week wishywashy Dorothy Parker (editor, foreword) (2014)

Selected articles

• "Estate of Mind: Dorothy Author willed her copyright to picture NAACP—an organization her executor, Lillian Hellman, detested," Bookforum, (April/May 2006)^[18]
• "Close to Home," American Theatre (April 2008)

Films and documentaries

• Stealing Heaven (adapted from novel) (1988)
• Would You Charitable Direct Me to Hell?

  Rendering Infamous Dorothy Parker (1994)

References

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