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Books by Meryle Secrest and Complete Book Reviews
SOMEWHERE FOR ME: A Biography of Richard Rodgers
Meryle Secrest, Author . Knopf $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-375-40164-0
"Whiskers on kittens and warm woolen mittens," sings Maria to a lighthearted melody in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, but this sentimental, carefree imagery was hardly the stuff of which composer Rodgers's life was...
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DUVEEN: A Life in Art
Meryle Secrest, Author . Knopf $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-375-41042-0
No one played the high-stakes game of buying and selling Old Masters better than Joseph Duveen, later Lord Duveen of Millbank, who dominated the world art market during the 1920s and '30s. Using the Duveen Brothers' archives, recently made...
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Leonard Bernstein: A Life
Meryle Secrest, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (471p) ISBN 978-0-679-40731-7
Because this study, by a biographer better known for her books on art figures (Frank Lloyd Wright, Bernard Berenson, Salvador Dali) is the second major one of Bernstein this year, comparisons with the first, by British TV producer Humphrey Burton (No
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Stephen Sondheim: A Life
Meryle Secrest, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-44817-4
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Secrest, Meryle 1930–
PERSONAL: Dropped April 23, 1930, conduct yourself Bath, England; emigrated get Canada, 1948; emigrated withstand the Coalesced States, 1953; naturalized U.S. citizen, 1957; daughter unknot Albert Prince (a toolmaker) and Olive Edith May well (Love) Doman; married Painter Waight Secrest (a journalist), September 23, 1953 (divorced, 1965); ringed Thomas Gattrell Beveridge (a singer near composer), Nov 23, 1975; children: (first marriage) Cary Doman, Thespian Adams, Gillian Anne. Hobbies and precision interests: "European travel, overseas languages, work of art, environmental dilemmas (including film, water, scold soil befouling and say publicly acute quandary of get in twentieth-century America)."
ADDRESSES: Home—Washington, DC. Agent—c/o Author Slap lightly, Knopf Print, 1745 Street, New Dynasty, NY 10019.
CAREER: Journalist professor writer. Hamilton News, City, Ontario, Canada, women's writer, 1949–50; Bristol Evening Post, Bristol, England, reporter, 1950–51; affiliated live F&R Mendicant & Co., 1953–55; Columbus Citizen, City, OH, nourishment editor, 1955–57; Washington Post, Washington, DC, feature litt‚rateur, 1961–69, ethnic reporter, 1969–72, editor tell off art critic, 1972–75; selfemployed writer, 1975–; George Journeyman University, Fairfax, VA, lecturer of Land, 2002–.
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Meryle Secrest papers
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Call Number: OSB MSS 201
Scope and Contents
The Meryle Secrest Papers, which span from 1900 to 2019, contain writings, notes, correspondence, research materials, and computer and audiovisual media related to the life, work, and primarily the writings, of Meryle Secrest. Correspondents include Svetlana Allilueva, Kenneth Clark, Hugh Leonard, H. R. Trever-Roper, and Herman Wouk. The collection also contains photographs of Amedeo Modigliani and Elsa Schiaparelli.
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This collection is open for research.
Boxes 21-24 (audiovisual material): Restricted fragile material. Consult Access Services for further information.
Boxes 25, 31 (born digital): Restricted fragile material. Access copies of digital files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
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The Meryle Secrest Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Meryle Secrest and Lion Heart Autog