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Grobel, Lawrence Michael was born on February 10, 1947.
(Recorded between July 16, 1982, and August 25, 1984, when...)
Recorded between July 16, 1982, and August 25, 1984, when Truman Capote died, these unexpurgated interviews cover a wide range of territory, including Capote's views on his life, his personal demons, his homosexuality, his bout with drugs and alcohol, and his rich and famous friends.
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( James Michener's vast work has intrigued millions of re...)
James Michener's vast work has intrigued millions of readers. Popularizing history, he wrote extensively about travel and covered broad areas of America in books such as Centennial, Texas, Hawaii, Alaska, and Chesapeake. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his first book, Tales of the South Pacific, which he wrote at the age of forty, and his books were made into television mini-series, movies, and musicals. In conversations that took place between 1980 and October 1997, days before his death, Michener met with Lawrence Grobel at Michener's homes in Florida, Maine, and Texas, as well as in New York and Los Angeles. The two discussed topics of both a personal and professional nature and touched on subjects Michener avoided in his own memoir. The product of these revealing discussions is Talking with Michener, the first full-length book of in-depth interviews with the famed writer. In the thirteen chapters of the book, Michener explores sex, love, pornography, politics abortion, AIDS, plagiarism, sports, the current state of publishing, and the status of the artist in society. To Grobel, he reveals many personal milestones and struggles--his dialysis; the death of his wife Mari; his service in the war; his travels to the Antarctica and to Pearl Harbor on the 50th anniversary of the bombing; and his philanthropy totaling $120 million. Speaking of literary matters, he tells how he wrote such sweeping novels, why he chose some subjects and avoided others, and how he might write a historical novel about California. He analyzes each of his books, chooses his favorites, and discusses his strengths and weaknesses as a writer. To accompany the chapters that cover the writer's life and work, Grobel has written an intimate introduction about his long relationship with Michener, and Michener interviews himself in a revealing afterword. Through the pages of Talking with Michener, Grobel affords Michener's many fans a close portrait of unexcelled depth and discovery. Lawrence Grobel is a novelist and writer from Los Angeles. Among his honors are a fiction fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a P. E. N. Special Achievement Award for his book Conversations with Capote. His articles and interviews have appeared in Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Newsday, Reader's Digest, Movieline, and Entertainment Weekly.
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( When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America...)
When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America lost a towering figure in movie history. The director of such classic films as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, Prizzi's Honor, and The Dead, John Huston evoked passionate responses from everyone he encountered. He was at the center of a dynasty, with three generations of Oscar winners (Walter, John and Anjelica). Now, for the first time as an audiobook, the complete story of this remarkable family is told in The Hustons by Lawrence Grobel. The book chronicles the family's history - from Walter's days on the vaudeville circuit and his later fame on Broadway, through John's meteoric rise, to Anjelica's emergence as a great actress in film today. Grobel interviewed John Huston for over 100 hours and conducted 200 interviews with John's four children, three of his five wives, many of his mistresses, producers, writers, technicians, and a number of celebrities who rarely grant interviews. J.P. Donleavy named The Hustons the best book of the year when it was published. James A. Michener dubbed it a "Masterpiece." Kirkus called it "Spellbinding." Larry King thought it, "Biography writing at its absolute best." Frederick Raphael wrote, "The Hustons is a delicious, wicked guide to the delicious, wicked life of a sly, sadistic scoundrel who was equaled only by Byron in the sentimental cynicism and fecund carelessness with which he played the world's game." Alyn Brodsky in The Miami Herald called it, "An engrossing study in family dynamics... Marvelous... This is one of the best biographies of a Hollywood personality since - actually, I can't recall since when." And the Hollywood Reporter said it "Reads like a gutsy movie that might have been made by Huston himself."
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(Soy un homosexual, soy un drogadicto, soy un genio. Estas...)
Soy un homosexual, soy un drogadicto, soy un genio. Estas afirmaciones de Truman Capote, cuyo alcance revela en este libro, se hicieron justamente celebres. Estas conversaciones, que se celebraron duranmte unperiodo de dos anos, justo antes de la muerte de Capote, conforman la definitiva entrevista enprofundidad del gran escritor.
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Grobel, Lawrence Michael was born on February 10, 1947.
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968.
Instructor Ghana Institute Journalism Peace Corps, Accra, 1968-1971. Director Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing Antioch University.A., 1976-1980. Contributing editor Playboy magazine, Movieline magazine, since 1980.
(Recorded between July 16, 1982, and August 25, 1984, when...)
( When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America...)
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