Background
Potter was born to Mary Barton Atterbury and Joseph Wiltsie Fuller Potter, on April 12, 1918, in Manhattan. His father was a Wall Street stockbroker.
(In a thousand dazzling images conjured by his immediate f...)
In a thousand dazzling images conjured by his immediate family and closest friends, Jackson Pollock, the spectacularly self-destructive and gifted American painter, comes to life in this fascinating oral biography assembled and written by his friend and East Hampton neighbor, Jeffrey Potter. The dramatic narrative of Pollock's violent death, told by those who were on the scene, from farmers and policemen to coroners and lovers, is gripping in its immediacy. To a Violent Grave reveals a man living a life that mirrored his art. Jackson Pollock--powerful, colorful, contradictory, brilliant--was an explosion that rocked and changed forever all he touched.
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(Crude oil - seven million tons of it each year - is darke...)
Crude oil - seven million tons of it each year - is darkening the world's oceans. Some ecologists maintain that seepage from offshore drilling, industrial wastes, and the spilled cargo of stricken tankers may destroy the ocean's life within fifty years. Here are case studies of supertankers like the Torrey Canyon, which ran aground in the English Channel and oozed 119,000 tons of Kuwaiti crude across the beaches of Cornwall and Brittany; the Santa Barbara offshore drilling blow-out, which triggered months of seepage, and ruined the city's tourist trade; and the present attempts to drill off the shores of Long Island and New England, an operation which some environmentalists feel could imperil the whole Northeastern seaboard. Jeffrey Potter, who is a long-time ship's engineer as well as a professional writer, uses his knowledge of the sea and his skills as a journalist to bring the polluters of oceans - none too soon - to the bar of world opinion.
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Potter was born to Mary Barton Atterbury and Joseph Wiltsie Fuller Potter, on April 12, 1918, in Manhattan. His father was a Wall Street stockbroker.
He also published two children's books and two non-fiction works: one about environmental disaster, and an authorised biography of Dorothy Schiff. The young Jeffrey dropped out of Groton School to become a newspaper reporter, factory machinist and seaman. During World World War II he joined the American Field Service, where he was attached to the British Indian Army, as an ambulance driver and medic in the Burma Campaign.
While working as a building contractor in the Hamptons in 1949, he befriended painter Jackson Pollock.
They remained friends until Pollock"s death in 1956. Potter"s first biography, Men, Money & Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff was published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan in 1976.
The authorised work suggested the relationship with Roosevelt was sexual. The sensational story received extensive coverage in Time Magazine of June 7, 1976.
Schiff denied it and came to refer to Potter"s work as "that awful book", although, when she left her papers to the New York Public Library, after her death in 1989, pages initialed by her referred to the joint purchase with Franklin Delano Roosevelt of a house next to Hyde Park, New New York
Potter felt betrayed by the denial. In 1985, Potter published a book on Pollock, consisting of selections from hundreds of taped interviews with Pollock"s family, friends, colleagues and neighbors. Pollock (2000) was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.
Potter claimed the book had plagiarised his, and Naifeh and Smith sued him for libel.
Editor Harris would later say that his interest in portraying Pollock was inspired by Potter"s book, which he had received as birthday gift from his father.
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