Barbara Goldsmith (1931–2016)
Auteur van Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
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Barbara Goldsmith was born Barbara Joan Lubin on May 18, 1931 in Manhattan, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English and art history from Wellesley College in 1953. After college, she worked for Art News as a critic before becoming an editor at Woman's Home Companion, where she created toon meer an entertainment section. Later, she worked at Town and Country, where she started a series called The Creative Environment, for which she interviewed important figures in the arts. She wrote for The New York Herald Tribune and then became one of the founding editors of New York magazine. She was a senior editor at Harper's Bazaar in the early 1970s, but soon left to write the novel The Straw Man. Her account of the 1934 custody battle over Gloria Vanderbilt entitled Little Gloria ¿ Happy at Last was published in 1980 and was turned into an NBC mini-series in 1982. Her other non-fiction works included Johnson v. Johnson; Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull; and Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. She died from heart failure on June 26, 2016 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Head shot of author and historian Barbara L. Goldsmith (1931 - ).
Werken van Barbara Goldsmith
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull (1998) 361 exemplaren
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- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Lubin, Barbara Joan (birth)
- Geboortedatum
- 1931-05-18
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2016-06-26
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- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- heart failure
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
New Rochelle, New York, USA
East Hampton, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Wellesley College
Columbia University - Beroepen
- historian
editor
philanthropist
biographer
journalist - Relaties
- Perry, Frank (husband)
- Organisaties
- New York Public Library, trustee
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
PEN, trustee - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit, Republic of Poland 2009
3 Emmy awards for "Little Gloria - Happy at Last" and "Bacall and the Boys"
New York Public Library Literary Lion
Author's Guild Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement 2007
National Archives Award - Korte biografie
- Barbara Goldsmith was born in New York City. She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Wellesley College, after which she took art courses at Columbia University. Her first assignments as a journalist were in the art field, and then she wrote a series of prize-winning profiles of Hollywood stars such as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, and Audrey Hepburn. In 1967, she became a founding editor and writer of New York Magazine, for which she wrote about art and colorful figures in the art world. Tom Wolfe called her one of the originators of the New Journalism movement. Goldsmith wrote “Bacall and the Boys, ” a 1968 television special about Lauren Bacall in Paris with the young designers Yves St. Laurent and Giorgio Armani, which won her an Emmy award.
Her first book, a novel called The Straw Man (1975), was a bestseller. It was followed by Little Gloria...Happy At Last (1980), a nonfiction account of the 1930s custody battle for Gloria Vanderbilt, which was another bestseller and was adapted into both a film and a television mini-series. Her book on the the bitter family feud behind the lawsuit of Johnson vs. Johnson (1987), also was a bestseller. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, was published in 1998, and Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie, came out in 2005.
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