Word: capua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elvis and George Plimpton and Jean Stein's Edie, essentially a snip-and-paste collage of interviews. Moreover, these new lives are not exclusively devoted to the scholarly examination of papers and letters. "Not long ago, most biographies were compiled by diligent researchers," says Michael Di Capua, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. But diligent was all they were. "Now it's rare for books like that to get published." Instead, the work is being done by artists who have extended their range far beyond the academic. In their debuts, Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt...
Michael di Capua, 42, is among the most respected literary editors in the business. For the past 14 years he has been with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of the last major independent houses in New York, where things do not appear to be as rushed as at other firms. Its authors include Isaac Bashevis Singer, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and Susan Sontag. Di Capua has edited such acclaimed writers as Larry Woiwode and Michael Arlen. A major project now is the result of one man's highly unusual childhood. Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany...