BOOKS by Meryle Secrest

Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of items matching your search terms.

Page 1 of 1

sort by

1	Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography more books like this by Meryle Secrest Meryle Secrest's "Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography" focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives. The result ... see all copies from $2.23! new only from $16.53! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Stephen Sondheim: A Life more books like this by Meryle Secrest Drawing on conversations with Sondheim and his friends and family, this biography of the famous composer and lyricist traces his life from his childhood and early musical ambitions to his ascent to Broadway with such musicals as "West Side Story", "Gypsy" and "Company". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Duveen: A Life in Art more books like this by Meryle Secrest Anyone who has admired Gainsborough's "Blue Boy" of the Huntington Collection in California, or Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owes much of his or her pleasure to the art dealer Joseph Duveen (1869-1939). Regarded as the most influential - or, in some circles, notorious - dealer ... see all copies from $2.15! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rogers more books like this by Meryle Secrest This biography of Richard Rodgers chronicles the life of the composer by covering five decades of Americal musical history. It is a portrait of a complex man. The biography covers Rogers' 25 year collaboration with Lorenz Hart, producing such songs as "The Lady is a Tramp" and "Blue Moon". After Hart died, Rogers collaborated with Oscar ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Leonard Bernstein: A Life more books like this by Meryle Secrest This biography covers Leonard Berstein's life from his childhood growing up in a Hassidic family in Massachusetts through to the start to his career and his success in both classical music and musical theatre. Bernstein the family man is also featured - the father to his three children and husband to Felicia Montealegre, and the generous mentor, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Frank Lloyd Wright more books like this by Meryle Secrest A portrait of the man, the social visionary, the genius - from his non-conformist Welsh ancestors, through his fight against all that was bourgeois in America, to the architectural monuments he left behind (the "Prairie" house, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, the Falling Water House, the Guggenheim Museum). Secrest brings Wright to life as a man of ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $37.32! \| first editions
7	Somewhere for Me - A Biography of Richard Rodgers more books like this by Meryle Secrest No American composer has been more widely celebrated, nor so consistently misunderstood as Richard Rodgers. Although he was one of America's most brilliant and prolific composers, whose credits include more than 900 published songs, 40 Broadway musicals and numerous films, Rodgers is widely believed to be the almost stolid opposite of who he ... see all copies from $3.74! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Between me and life; a biography of Romaine Brooks. more books like this by Meryle Secrest see all copies from $25.00! signed copies \| first editions
9	Salvador Dali more books like this by Meryle Secrest Meryle Secrest's unauthorized and uncensored investigative biography penetrates both the psychological enigma of Dali's personality and the sometimes glamorous, sometimes fraudulent behind-the-scenes art world that sustained it. 38 halftones. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.25! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Kenneth Clark: A Biography more books like this by Meryle Secrest see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject more books like this by Meryle Secrest The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: " Shoot the widow." In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (" Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll" -- "The New York Times"), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a " life" is ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography more books like this by Meryle Secrest see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13	Kenneth Clark more books like this by Meryle Secrest see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Salvador Dal : the surrealist jester more books like this by Meryle Secrest see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15	Somewhere for Me: Richard Rogers by Meryle Secrest The life of composer Richard Rodgers encapsulates the very essence of New York and London high society during the first half of the twentieth century and his brilliant twenty-five year collaboration with Lorenz Hart gave rise to songs that will live forever: "Manhattan", "The Lady is a Tramp", and "Blue Moon" are just a few of them. He later ... see all copies from $12.09!
16	Stephen Sondheim. more books like this by Meryle Secrest Secrest reveals how Sondheim learnt to play the piano at an early age and writes about the effect his parent's divorce had on him when he was 10. She reveals the difficulty he had struggling to gain a foothold in the theatre, attempting to make a living scriptwriting before his Broadway fame and successes. Originally published in 1998. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $16.18! \| first editions
17	Leonard Bernstein by Meryle Secrest see all copies from $19.33!

Page 1 of 1

Browse authors

Meryle Secrest

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.