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Marion Meade

Born

in Pittsburgh, The United States

January 07, 1934

Died

December 29, 2022

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction

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Marion Meade is an American biographer and novelist, whose subjects stretch from 12th century French royalty to 20th century stand-up comedians. She is best known for her portraits of literary figures and iconic filmmakers.

Her new book, Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, is a joint biography of a husband and wife whose lives provide a vivid picture of the artistic milieu of the Jazz Age and the Great Depression.

For more information on Lonelyhearts--and an exciting photo gallery--visit http://www.nathanaelwest.com

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Kirkus starred review for LONELYHEARTS: THE SCREWBALL WORLD OF NATHANAEL WEST AND EILEEN MCKENNEY

An ingenious dual biography of a classic American author and an unlikely literary muse.

The romance between novelist Nathanael West (1903-1940) and Eileen McKenney (1911-1940) was tragically brief. They met in October 1939, married six months later and died in a car accident shortly before Christmas 1940. Consequently, only a fraction of the latest biography by Meade (Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Read more of this blog post »

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Published on March 07, 2010 11:58 • Tags: eileen-mckenney, marion-meade, nathanael-west

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Marion Meade’s books

Average rating: 4.0 · 10,458 ratings · 1,053 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? 3.98 avg rating — 4,184 ratings — published 1987 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography 4.08 avg rating — 1,393 ratings — published 1977 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties 3.81 avg rating — 1,450 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stealing Heaven 4.20 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1985 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography 3.50 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2000 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase 3.55 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1995 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney 3.44 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Days of Dorothy Parker: The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman and How Death Can Be Hell on Friendship 3.69 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth 3.51 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1976 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“But now I know the things I know, And do the things I do; And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you!”
― Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

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“Hemingway concealed his hurt feelings but privately added Dorothy's name to his catalogue of people he disliked.”
― Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

tags: hemingway, hurt-feelings, immature-reactions, list, parker

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“When an editor once tried to kill herself by diving in front of a subway train, Edna Chase was pained by her vulgarity. If a Vogue editor was forced to resort to suicide, she should have enough sense to swallow sleeping powders instead of leaving messes for the city sanitation department.”
― Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

tags: edna-chase, sophisticate, suicide, vogue, vulgarity

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Polls

Wow! I'm so late with next months book poll. Sorry! January is one of our non-fiction months...biography/history. Vote for your choice. This is a quick one so it will end on Friday. Depending on the length of the book we choose, we may skip the first Tuesday in January for discussion.

Madame de Pompadour

Nancy Mitford

4 votes, 100.0%

Benjamin Franklin

Edmund S. Morgan

0 votes, 0.0%

King Arthur

Norma Lorre Goodrich

0 votes, 0.0%

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography

Marion Meade

0 votes, 0.0%

Lucrezia Borgia

Sarah Bradford

0 votes, 0.0%

Queen Isabella

Alison Weir

0 votes, 0.0%

4 total votes

4 comments

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