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When the Hickok letters were released, Biographer Joseph Lash had already written three books about Eleanor-a memoir of their long friendship, which began in the late 1930s when he was a leftist youth leader in Washington, and the bestselling two-volume study, Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor: The Years Alone. Lash has set out to balance his work with two more volumes, of which Love, Eleanor is the first...
...took one look at me, ignored my outstretched hand, clutched her Oscar to her bosom, and wheeled away ..." Heartbreak is hardly peculiar to actors, but they are surely experts in extracting drama from it. They often see things the way a scriptwriter might. Concludes Ricardo Montalban's memoir, Reflections-A Life in Two Worlds: "If we are free and open and giving, our lives will be full and fruitful... Those thoughts and a thousand others flowed through my mind as I motored westward toward the waning...
...Memoir, Eileen Simpson ∙Thomas...
POETS IN THEIR YOUTH: A MEMOIR...
...What the hell is happiness?" John Berryman once asked his first wife, the author of this memoir. He added another question: "Should a poet seek it?" For Berryman and many other poets of his generation, the answer seems to have been no. They did not flame out young, like Keats and Shelley. But few of them enjoyed their later years, and they are all gone now: Berryman, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke and Delmore Schwartz. They left behind some splendid poems and some terribly sad histories of alcoholism, mental illness, despair and suicide...