The definitive biography of Al Hirschfeld, renowned caricaturist
and artist. Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He
occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. Hirschfeld: The
Biography is the first portrait of the renowned artist's life-as
spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the
1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians,
and-his favorite-celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to
Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the New York Times and other
publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters,
and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years. He lived in
Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a
star-studded block where his closest friends-Carol Channing, S. J.
Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene
Dietrich, and William Saroyan-flocked in and out. He played the
piano, went to jazz joints with Eugene O'Neill, and wrote a musical
that bombed. He drove until he was ninety-eight years old and
always found a parking space. He worked every day, threw dinner
parties twice a week, and hosted New Year's Eve soirees that were
legendary. He had three wives, a formidable agent, and a daughter,
Nina, the most famous little girl that no one knows. Hirschfeld
died in 2003, at the age of ninety-nine. "If you live long enough,"
he liked to say, "everything happens." For him, it did. And good
and bad-it's all here. Through interviews with Hirschfeld himself,
his friends and family (including the mysterious Nina), and his
famous subjects, as well as through letters, scrapbooks, and home
movies, Ellen Stern has crafted a delightful, detailed, and
definitive portrait of Al Hirschfeld, one of our most beloved, and
most influential, artists.
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