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The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter Paperback – Illustrated, May 18, 2009

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“A striking portrait of a woman artist’s struggle for life.” ―Arthur Miller

Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.37 illustrations
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"Engrossing, beautifully written . . . but also touching in its candor about the flawed character of a beloved relation."
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"It is a virtue of this autobiographical biography that it succeeds in evoking the unfathomable nature of a personality."
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"Haunting and . . . complex . . . part biography, part memoir, of the woman who happened to be [Honor Moore’s] grandmother."
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"Ambitious and searching . . . as rich in casually telling detail as only an authentic family album could be."
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About the Author

Honor Moore is the author of two previous memoirs in A Daughter’s Family Trilogy―The Bishop’s Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The White Blackbird, a New York Times Notable Book―as well as a play and three collections of poems. She lives in New York City.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (May 18, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 412 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393336115
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393336115
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches
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Honor Moore’s newest book, Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury, was published on by W.W. Norton on March 10.

Moore’s previous memoir, The Bishop’s Daughter, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, and many other journals and anthologies. For the Library of America, she edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems and Poems from the Women’s Movement, an Oprah Summer Reading List pick. She has been poet-in-residence at Wesleyan University and the University of Richmond, visiting professor at the Columbia School of the Arts, and three times the Visiting Distinguished Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. When still in her twenties, Mourning Pictures, her play in verse about her mother’s death, was produced on Broadway. The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, published in 1996 and recently reissued, was a New York Times Notable Book. She lives and writes in New York, where she is on the graduate writing faculty of The New School.

Honor Moore’s papers are held at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017
This is a wonderful biography of a female sculptor and painter of considerable accomplishment and promise who abruptly stopped exhibiting in mid-career due to the pressures of her marriage, family life and position in Boston Society. Written with very perceptive insights by her granddaughter, it is a riveting story of an exceptional life and an evocative portrait of the times and society she lived it--pre WWI Boston debutant society, the twenties in Paris and the life of the rich during the depression. Women may especially like this book, for obvious reasons, but any man interested in the tortured life of an artist--this time one we have never heard of--will be absorbed. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2020
I have read all of Honor Moore's biographical books. This one by far is the best with all of the in-depth detail about her grandmother and circle of friends. It is a hard read because of the detail but well worth the patience required to read and comprehend the timeline of information. Wow is how I describe it. A must read for those interested in the Sargent and Moore families.
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2012
Margarett Sargent was a talented painter back in the golden age of the 20-30s, when art was transitioning from classic traditional to modern. A Boston-born socialite, she was also a distant cousin of famous painter John Singer Sargent, whose work she loathed. She lived a fascinating, but somewhat tragic and selfish life -- as many wealthy, artistic, and creative types did at the time.

Talented, but tainted by alcohol and depression, she wasn't nearly as productive or famous as she probably could have been. -Definitely an interesting read about an interesting time and a complicated woman.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2021
Looks like a good book but I haven’t had the opportunity to read yet.
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2016
Beautiful. Honor Moore allows us priviledged access into a life of pain and priviledge.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2001
I don't know why this book isn't better known, or why we haven't heard much more from Honor Moore, whose grandmother's life is fascinating, tragic and ultimately mysterious. Unlike so many contemporary biographies, this one isn't overly long or obsessed with detail at the expense of perspective. An exquisite piece of work from start to finish--one of the best biographies I have ever read.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2013
I know the author, Honor Moore, and her family who lived nearby when they were in Indianapolis. Margarett was quite an interesting person, lived life to the fullest.
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