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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- Print length412 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication dateMay 18, 2009
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches
- ISBN-100393336115
- ISBN-13978-0393336115
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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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- 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
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,934,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,579 in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers (Books)
- #28,609 in Women's Biographies
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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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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.