Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. His most recent book is Lives and Letters. (September 2011)
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‘The Mother of Us All’
September 29, 2011
Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters
by Donald Bogle
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
by Ethel Waters, with Charles Samuels, and with a new preface by Donald Bogle
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Showing Off
April 28, 2011
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy
by Nora Titone, with a foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The Secrets of Houdini
February 10, 2011
Houdini: Art and Magic
an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York City, October 29, 2010–March 27, 2011; the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, April 28–September 11, 2011; the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, September 26, 2011–January 15, 2012;
Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss: American Self-Liberator, Europe’s Eclipsing Sensation, World’s Handcuff King & Prison Breaker
by Kenneth Silverman
Houdini’s Box: The Art of Escape
by Adam Phillips
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero
by William Kalush and Larry Sloman
Houdini: A Mind in Chains: A Psychoanalytic Portrait
by Bernard C. Meyer
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini
by Ruth Brandon
Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle
by Massimo Polidoro
Houdini: The Untold Story
by Milbourne Christopher
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Waking Beauty
December 9, 2010
Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet
by Jennifer Homans
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The Anti-Semitic Attacks on Sarah
October 28, 2010
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Who Was Charles Dickens?
June 10, 2010
Charles Dickens
by Michael Slater
Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph
by Edgar Johnson
Dickens and Women
by Michael Slater
Dickens: A Biography
by Fred Kaplan
Dickens
by Peter Ackroyd
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
by Claire Tomalin
The Life of Charles Dickens
by John Forster
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Nearly Anything Goes
December 3, 2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
by Morris Dickstein
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Who Was the Most Famous of All?
October 22, 2009
Joseph Jefferson: Dean of the American Theatre
by Arthur W. Bloom
The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
by Benjamin McArthur
The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson
by Joseph Jefferson
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The Silent Superstar
February 26, 2009
Douglas Fairbanks
by Jeffrey Vance with Tony Maietta
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Keeper of the Jewels
October 9, 2008
Balanchine Variations by Nancy Goldner
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‘Artists in Exile’
June 12, 2008
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Falling Stars
May 15, 2008
Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts
by Joseph Horowitz.
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The Rescue of John Steinbeck
April 17, 2008
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Lit-Flicks
September 27, 2007
Becoming Jane a film directed by Julian Jarrold
Molière a film directed by Laurent Tirard
Shakespeare in Love a film directed by John Madden
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Wake Up and Dream
August 16, 2007
The House That George Built
by Wilfrid Sheed
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The Drama of Sarah Bernhardt
May 10, 2007
Sarah Bernhardt by Henry Gidel
Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama
by Carol Ockman and Kenneth E. Silver
Sarah Bernhardt’s First American Theatrical Tour, 1880–1881
by Patricia Marks
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
translated from the French by Victoria Tietze Larson
Being Divine: A Biography of Sarah Bernhardt by Ruth Brandon
The Divine Sarah: A Life of Sarah Bernhardt
by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale
Dear Sarah Bernhardt
by Françoise Sagan, translated from the French by Sabine Destrée
Sarah Bernhardt by Philippe Jullian
Sarah Bernhardt and Her World
by Joanna Richardson
Sarah Bernhardt: The Art Within the Legend
by Gerda Taranow
Madame Sarah
by Cornelia Otis Skinner
The Idol of Paris
by Sarah Bernhardt
Les Mémoires de Sarah Barnum by Marie Colombier, with a preface by Paul Bonnetain
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Force of Nature
April 6, 2006
Elia Kazan: A Biography
by Richard Schickel
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Orientally Yours
January 13, 2005
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughterto Hollywood Legend
by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Perpetually Cool:The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961)
by Anthony B. Chan
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Passage to India
December 16, 2004
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The Art of Pleasing
December 2, 2004
Margot Fonteyn: A Life
by Meredith Daneman
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Becky in the Movies
November 18, 2004
Vanity Fair a film directed by Mira Nair
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Duse Plays the Palace
December 18, 2003
Eleonora Duse
by Helen Sheehy
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Defending Bruno Bettelheim
November 20, 2003
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The Strange Case of Dr. B.
February 27, 2003
Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim
by Theron Raines
Not the Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim’s Orthogenic School
by Stephen Eliot
The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim
by Richard Pollak
The Pelican and After
by Tom Wallace Lyons
Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy
by Nina Sutton, translated from the French by David Sharp
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Long-Distance Runner
November 1, 2001
Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life
by Charles Affron
Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen
by Stuart Oderman
by John Steinbeck-
Tame Jane
March 26, 2011
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Monstres Sacrés in Love
August 3, 2010
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My President
January 15, 2010
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Paris Ballet Follies
November 3, 2009