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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 · 10,459 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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January is non-fiction (biography/history). Vote for which one you want to read. I've changed the closing date...it's now Friday, December 7th.

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography

Marion Meade

3 votes, 50.0%

Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England

Thomas Penn

1 vote, 16.7%

The Sisters Who Would be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey

Leanda de Lisle

1 vote, 16.7%

King Arthur

Norma Lorre Goodrich

1 vote, 16.7%

American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans

Eve LaPlante

0 votes, 0.0%

Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

Alison Weir

0 votes, 0.0%

6 total votes

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