Background
Claridge was born in 1952, in Clearwater, Florida.
College Park, MD 20742, United States
Claridge received her Ph.D. in British Romanticism and Literary Theory from the University of Maryland in 1986.
(Until recently, "masculinity" and its impact on literary ...)
Until recently, "masculinity" and its impact on literary production and reception have received scant attention in the field of literary criticism. Although critics certainly have been interested in examining gender, they have tended to be far more concerned with the "feminine" side of the equation than with the "masculine." This book is an attempt to redress that imbalance. Positing that patriarchy victimizes men as well as women, the fifteen original essays in Out of Bounds explore how certain male writers from the American and British canon have responded to the confines of the masculine code. The contributors apply a wide range of critical approaches and probe the gendered perspective in a variety of telling ways.
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Bounds-Writers-Gender-Criticism/dp/0870237349/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Out+of+Bounds%3A+Male+Writers+and+Gender%28ed%29+Criticism&qid=1605602967&sr=8-1
1990
(Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific caree...)
Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized, nostalgic depictions of middleclass life have caused him to be considered not a serious artist but a 2mere illustrator" - a disparagement only reinforced by the hundreds of memorable covers he drew for The Sunday Evening Post. Symptomatic of critics’ neglect is the fact that Rockwell has never before been the subject of a serious critical biography. Based on private family archives and interviews and publishes to coincide with a major two-year travelling retrospective of his work, this book reveals for the first time the driven workaholic who had three complicated marriages and was a distant father - so different from the loving, all-American-dad image widely held to this day. Critically acclaimed author Laura Claridge also breaks new ground with her reappraisal of Rockwell’s art, arguing that despite his popular sentimental style, his artistry was masterful, complex, and far more manipulative than people realize.
https://www.amazon.com/Norman-Rockwell-Life-Laura-Claridge/dp/0375504532/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Norman+Rockwell%3A+A+Life&qid=1605603035&sr=8-3
2001
(Laura Claridge has written the first biography of the hig...)
Laura Claridge has written the first biography of the high society woman who became an advocate for the middle class and immigrant Americans. Today, almost a half century after the writers death, the name Emily Post remains a touchstone of twenty-first century Americans.
https://www.amazon.com/Emily-Post-Laura-Claridge-audiobook/dp/B001IDPJ5Y/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Emily+Post%3A+Daughter+of+the+Gilded+Age%2C+Mistress+of+American+Manners&qid=1605603074&sr=8-1
2008
(The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who...)
The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature Left off her company’s fifth-anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche also legitimized the hard-boiled detective fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler; signed and nurtured literary authors like Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, and Muriel Spark; acquired momentous works of journalism by John Hersey and William Shirer; and introduced American readers to Albert Camus, André Gide, and Simone de Beauvoir, giving these French writers the benefit of her consummate editorial taste. As Knopf celebrates its centennial, Laura Claridge looks back at the firm’s beginnings and the dynamic woman who helped to define American letters for the twentieth century. Drawing on a vast cache of papers, Claridge also captures Blanche’s "witty, loyal, and amusing" personality, and her charged yet oddly loving relationship with her husband. An intimate and often surprising biography, The Lady with the Borzoi is the story of an ambitious, seductive, and impossibly hardworking woman who was determined not to be overlooked or easily categorized.
https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Borzoi-Literary-Tastemaker-Extraordinaire/dp/0374114250/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Lady+with+the+Borzoi%3A+Blanche+Knopf%2C+Literary+Tastemaker+Extraordinaire&qid=1605603095&sr=8-1
2016
Claridge was born in 1952, in Clearwater, Florida.
Claridge received her Ph.D. in British Romanticism and Literary Theory from the University of Maryland in 1986.
Claridge taught in the English departments at Converse and Wofford colleges in Spartanburg, SC, and was a tenured professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis until 1997.
Claridge has written two biographies of twentieth-century artists, Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence and Norman Rockwell: A Life. In both cases, she offers a chronicle of the artists' lives and a critical appraisal of their body of work, showing how personal incidents can factor into artistic creations. Tamara de Lempicka was a Russian-born painter with aristocratic ties who used her artwork to finance a peripatetic lifestyle that included stays in Paris and Hollywood. Library Journal correspondent Mary Hamel-Schwulst found Tamara de Lempicka to be "meticulously researched" and an "excellent academic study of an independent woman artist." A Publishers Weekly reviewer likewise praised the book as an "engrossing account of the bawdy and amusing painter" who is "fashionable again among contemporary collectors."
Norman Rockwell ranks among the best-known American painters of the twentieth century, but because his work was created for commercial appeal, he has not been given the critical appraisal he perhaps deserves. Claridge seeks to rectify that omission in Normal Rockwell: A Life. In addition to providing a detailed chronology of Rockwell's life, from his ancestry to his death, she also treats his paintings - individually and collectively - as serious modernist contributions to the American canon. According to Steve Weinberg in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Claridge "never loses sight of Rockwell the artist" while revealing the sometimes harrowing details of his private life.
Claridge received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and her 2008 biography of Emily Post received the J Anthony Lukas Award, administered by Harvard University's Neiman Foundation for Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and the Christian Science Monitor. Claridge has appeared on the Today Show on NBC, CNN, BBC, CBS, NPR and ABC.
(The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who...)
2016(Until recently, "masculinity" and its impact on literary ...)
1990(Laura Claridge has written the first biography of the hig...)
2008(Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific caree...)
2001Claridge is married and together with her husband they live in New York’s Hudson Valley.