TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pierpont,Claudia Roth
TI  - American rhapsody: writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building 
SN  - 9780374104405
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
N1  - "Many of these essays were previously published, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker"--Title page verso; Includes index; Includes index; Introduction -- Cries and Whispers : Edith Wharton -- For Love and Money : F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Behind the Mask : Bert Williams and Stepin Fetchit -- Jazzbo : George Gershwin -- The Silver Spire : The Chrysler Building -- Tough Guy : Dashiell Hammett -- The Collector : Peggy Guggenheim -- Born For The Part : Katharine Hepburn -- The Player Kings : Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier -- Method Man : Marlon Brando -- Another Country : James Baldwin -- A Raised Voice : Nina Simone
N2  - "Incisive biographical profiles of some of the most iconic American artists and creations of the twentieth century"--
ER  -