The “poet laureate of the New York underground scene” chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, by the 1970s and ’80s, New York City’s creative scene had given way to a punk rock–era defined by figures like Debbie Harry and Richard Hell.
A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of Carolyn Pfeiffer, a pioneering film producer and one of Hollywood's first female executivesa ';mini-mogul' in the words of the Wall Street Journal.
A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the nineteen-twenties including traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having an illegitimate child.
This story of The Author's unconventional lifestyle gives valuable lessons to the many people who leave school and University with no plans for their careers, and are just content to be buffetted along life's highways, waiting for the miracle which will never happen.
The essence of this, offers the way to hammer-out the creases of contradiction, of divided beliefs, with a white-hot, iron fist, forged in the raging fire of pure awareness.
Kimberly Beam was a middle school Language Arts teacher in Massachusetts and an English teacher in Maryland before being diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma.
If you enjoyed reading about The Lady of 6,000 Songs in the best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, you will love going behind the scenes to learn more about how the remarkable entertainer and her husband successfully juggled their marriage, her Hall of Fame music career, his sign business, and at the same time, raise ten children.
This book is a carefully documented combination of my free transcendental thoughts, including many of my life experiences recalled and written precisely as creative stories.
Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner tells the story of how a young widow in the summer of 1813 made two large flags for Fort McHenry in Baltimore.
This book is a Custom Magazine Limited Edition Exclusive Auto Biography about myself that has already gotten most successful people award from Covington and is an auto bio part into a documentary into my life that I own my own copyrights called True crime and Model Inc.
Alec Parker was only trying to make enough money to finish college when his all-American good looks caught the eye of an agent of one of New Yorks most prestigious modeling agencies.
In 1963 a woman by the name of "e;Evgenia Smetisko,"e; an immigrant who purportedly entered the United States from Roumania according to her 1928 naturalization papers, published "e;Anastasia: The Autobiography of HIH The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia.
Four years ago, the author started out on a journey to learn Irish set dancing, at an age, he says When most men and women are pulling the stool closer to the turf fire and dreaming of life when life was young.
The fortuitous nature of life cannot be better exemplified than through this fascinating account of one young woman's experiences and travels in Switzerland and Europe during the tumultuous times around World War II.
This is a womans survival story that begins with life in Europe, loss of her father convicted of being a spy and sent to Siberia, her flight to Poland, where she becomes a prisoner of the Germans.
The 1960s starlet, immortalized on the silver screen as Juliet, tells her story in this celebrity biography-with a forward by director Franco Zeffirelli.
He penned songs such as ';Witchcraft' and ';The Best Is Yet to Come' (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, respectively) and wrote such musicals as Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, On the Twentieth Century, and The Will Rogers Follies yet his life has gone entirely unexplored until now.
Foreword by Joe SatrianiGuitar Player: The Inside Story of the First Two Decades of the Most Successful Guitar Magazine Ever is a reflection on Guitar Player's often pioneering early days, from its 1967 founding through its 1989 sale by founder Bud Eastman and editor/publisher Jim Crockett.
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Gerry Mulligan was revered and recognized as a groundbreaking composer, arranger, bandleader, and baritone saxophonist.
As a keyboard musician, composer, arranger, music director, and record producer, Don Randi has thrilled music lovers for years, even if they weren't aware of it.
The ultimate treasure trove of information, A Chorus Line FAQ presents history and fun facts, including: the unique workshop process through which the show was developed and written, the stories of its creators, the record-breaking Broadway run and numerous touring productions, and the captivating movie version.
The lyrics of our favorite hymns are rich in images that can help us in our daily walk with God--they are miniature Bible studies that lead us effortlessly toward worship, testimony, exhortation, prayer, and praise.
