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DIED. LUCY GREALY, 39, whose harrowing 1994 memoir, Autobiography of a Face, recounted her repeated surgeries, starting in childhood, to repair severe facial disfigurement resulting from cancer; of undisclosed causes; in New York City. In her book, which became a staple of many college and high school syllabuses, Grealy detailed how her flawed appearance radically altered her sense of self...
...scored commercial success with her second novel, The Camomile Lawn, which was made into a television show. "Sixty should be the time to start something new," she said, "not put your feet up." In her last two decades, Wesley wrote 10 novels, three children's books and a memoir of her life in Devon...
...besides working on a memoir, Bernstein is now finishing a string quartet and "toying" with a concerto for an Ondes Martenot, an electrically driven French keyboard instrument, and another for piano and orchestra that harks back to his early days as a concert pianist...
...earning $500,000 a year, and her face adorned everything from posters to shopping bags. Iwasaki entertained world leaders and assorted celebrities, including Prince Charles, who scrawled his name?uninvited?on one of her favorite fans, and fashion designer Aldo Gucci, who spilled soy sauce on her kimono. The memoir details $5,000 costumes, how rice bran is good for softening skin and the difficulty of wearing okobo, or six-inch platform sandals. In his novel, Golden immersed the reader in the geisha world. Iwasaki tells about it, and there's a difference. Absent here are the lively prose...
This moving stage memoir chronicles the life of Gene Glimmer (Christopher R. Starr ’03), a talented jazz trumpeter who never quite made it. He is a “side man,” a journeyman musician in the heyday of the big band who plays backup to the headline stars. His story serves as a eulogy for the jazz era which faded with the onset of rock ‘n’ roll. On a more intimate level, Side Man also explores the way that Gene’s passion for jazz rules and ultimately...