Richard Meryman (1926–2015)
Autor(a) de Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life
About the Author
Richard Meryman was born on August 6, 1926. He graduated from Williams College and did graduate work at Harvard University. During World War II, he served as a Navy ensign. In 1949, he was hired as a novice writer for Life magazine. He went on to become the magazine's first human affairs editor and mostrar mais interviewed several celebrities including Ingmar Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, Paul McCartney, Laurence Olivier, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe. The tapes he recorded of his conversation with Monroe became the basis of a 1992 HBO program titled Marilyn: The Last Interview. He retired from Life in 1972. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Hope: A Loss Survived, Enter Talking co-written with Joan Rivers, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life, and Broken Promises, Mended Dreams. He died from pneumonia on February 5, 2015 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Richard Meryman
Andrew Wyeth: A Spoken Self-Portrait: Selected and Arranged by Richard Meryman from Recorded Conversations with the… (1600) — Editor — 25 exemplares
Carolyn Wyeth, Artist 2 exemplares
Marilyn Monroe Interview 1962 1 exemplar
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1926
- Data de falecimento
- 2015-02-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Phillips Exeter Academy
Williams College - Ocupações
- biographer
editor (Life) - Organizações
- Life Magazine
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Richard Meryman, the son of a painter, worked for twenty-three years as a reporter, correspondent, editor, and staff writer for the original Life magazine. A freelance writer since 1972, he was the author of several books, including Hope: A Loss Survived; Broken Promises, Mended Dreams; and Andrew Wyeth (1968), a major book of the artist's paintings. He first met Wyeth when he wrote an article about him for Life in 1964.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 400
- Popularidade
- #60,685
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 10