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Richard Meryman (1926–2015)

Autor(a) de Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life

13+ Works 400 Membros 3 Críticas

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

Associated Works

The Art of Andrew Wyeth (1973) — Contribuidor — 377 exemplares
Enter Talking (1986) 86 exemplares
Still Talking (1991) 79 exemplares
Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction 42 (1997) — Autor — 6 exemplares

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

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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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Críticas

Overly long, filled with profiles of tangential characters and interviews with every model and second cousin who happened to drop by for dinner - still, it's full of insight into the artist's temperament and the iron-bound armor Wyeth donned to keep the world at bay so he could get some work done. It's a scanner but full of treasure for aspiring artists of every discipline -- if you keep on keeping on..
 
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ChrisNewton | 2 outras críticas | Mar 18, 2016 |
View into uncompromising life of well-known painter. Documents extremes of discipline, devotion and austerity to which Wyeth holds himself, in order to make the art he wants to make.
 
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glacialerratic | 2 outras críticas | Feb 2, 2007 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
13
Also by
6
Membros
400
Popularidade
#60,685
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
3
ISBN
10

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