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The Journals of Leo Lerman
Knopf
April 2007
On Sale: April 10, 2007
688 pages
ISBN: 1400044391
EAN: 9781400044399
Hardcover
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A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the
journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer,
critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the
center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the
1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman’s contributions to the world of the arts were large
and varied: he wrote on theater, dance, music, art, books,
and movies for publications as diverse as Mademoiselle and
The New York Times. He was features editor at Vogue and
editor in chief of Vanity Fair. He launched careers and
trends, exposing the American public to new talents,
fashions, and ideas. He was a legendary party host as well, counting Marlene
Dietrich, Maria Callas, and Truman Capote among his
intimates, and celebrities like Cary Grant, Jackie Onassis,
Isak Dinesen, and Margot Fonteyn as part of his larger
circle. But his personal accounts and correspondence reveal
him also as having an unusually rich and complex private
life, mourning the cultivated émigré world of 1930s and
1940s New York City, reflecting on being Jewish and an
openly homosexual man, and intimately evoking his two most
important lifelong relationships. From a man whose literary icon was Marcel Proust comes an
unparalleled social and emotional history. With eloquence,
insight, and wit, he filled his journals and letters with
acute assessments, gossip, and priceless anecdotes while
inimitably recording both our larger cultural history and
his own moving private story.
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