SUMMERS A TRUE LOVE STORY von MargotPeters Paperback, 230 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Xlibris, Corp. ISBN-13: 978-1-4568-9711-6, ISBN: 1-4568-9711-X
"In 1948 a sixteen-year-old boy and girl meet briefly, but fatally, on a beach. The boy is so stricken by the girl that he writes her, begging her to answer. “What harm can come from writing letters?" he asks."
Lorine Niedecker(1st Edition) A Poet's Life von MargotPeters Hardcover, 334 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-28500-5, ISBN: 0-299-28500-6
"Lorine Niedecker (1903–70) was a poet of extraordinary talent whose life and work were long enveloped in obscurity. After her death in 1970, poet Basil Bunting wrote that she was “the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced . . . only beginning to be appreciated when she died.” Her poverty and arduous family life, the isolated home in Wisconsin that provided rich imagery for her work, and her unusual acquaintances have all ..."
May Sarton(Reprint) Biography von MargotPeters Paperback, 496 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Ballantine Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-449-90798-6, ISBN: 0-449-90798-8
"The first biography of May Sarton: a brilliant revelation of the life and work of a literary figure who influenced her thousands of readers not only by her novels and poetry, but by her life and her writings about it.May Sarton's career stretched from 1930 (early sonnets published in Poetry magazine) to 1995 (her journal At Eighty-Two). She wrote more than twenty novels, and twenty-five books of poems and journals. The acclaimed biograp ..."
Design for Living(1st Edition) Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne von MargotPeters Hardcover, 416 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41117-5, ISBN: 0-375-41117-8
"From the much-admired biographer of Charlotte Brontë, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and the Barrymores (“Margot Peters is surely now . . . our foremost historian of stage make-believe”—Leon Edel), a new biography of the most famous English-speaking acting team of the twentieth century. Individually, they were recognized as extraordinary actors, each one a star celebrated, imitated, sought after. Together, they were legend. The Lunts. A name to ..."
House of Barrymore(1st Edition) von MargotPeters Paperback, 656 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1991 von Touchstone ISBN-13: 978-0-671-74799-2, ISBN: 0-671-74799-1
"... Brundidge described John as the most "cussed and discussed" celebrity in
Twinkle Twinkle Movie Star (New York: Dutton, 1930). Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
defended him in Vanity Fair (September 1930). The WCFTR has prints of both
The Sea Beast and Don Juan, both of which Joseph Garton discusses
perceptively in The Film Acting of John Barrymore. John's hating "pansy parts":
Flagg's Roses and Buckshot. John Engstead, the reporter who tr ..."
The House of Barrymore(1st Edition) von MargotPeters Hardcover, 641 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1990 von Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-55321-4, ISBN: 0-394-55321-7
"This epic family biography begins in the 1860s with Louisa Drew, the greatest comedienne of her time, mother of the brilliant Georgiana Drew Barrymore and mother-in-law of the vaudeville star and matinee idol Maurice Barrymore. But it is the children of Georgie and Maurice who are the heart of the book: Ethel, Lionel, and John, the most extraordinary members of an extraordinary family. We see Ethel's sensational social and stage debuts ..."
SUMMERS A TRUE LOVE STORY von MargotPeters Hardcover, 232 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Xlibris ISBN-13: 978-1-4568-9712-3, ISBN: 1-4568-9712-8
"Back in Iowa, the boy writes the girl, urging her to answer. 'What harm can come from writing letters?' he asks. The girl replies. 'Summers: a true love story' is the story of that boy and girl, Rob Falkner and Jennie McAllister."
Unquiet Soul(Updated) Biography of Charlotte Bronte von MargotPeters Paperback, 460 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1977 von Futura Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-86007-560-8, ISBN: 0-86007-560-5
Charlotte Brontë style in the novel von MargotPeters Hardcover, 175 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1973 von University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-06240-8, ISBN: 0-299-06240-6
"Note : the photo listed with this item is not correct and refers to a different publication."
Unquiet Soul A Biography of Charlotte Bronte von MargotPeters Hardcover, 460 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1987 von Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-340-40670-0, ISBN: 0-340-40670-4
Mrs. Pat(Updated) Biography of Mrs.Patrick Campbell von MargotPeters Hardcover, 544 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1985 von Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-241-11535-0, ISBN: 0-241-11535-3
"Beautiful, witty, talented, Mrs Patrick Campbell became a legend in her own lifetime. Her theatrical career encompassed triumphs and failures, her private life was controversial and tragic. In this superb biography Margot Peters captures the magnetism of an outstanding actress and extraordinary woman, as intriguing today as ever."
Unquiet soul(1st Edition) A biography of Charlotte Brontë von MargotPeters Hardcover, 460 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1975 von Doubleday ISBN-13: 978-0-385-06622-8, ISBN: 0-385-06622-8
"Charlotte Brontë's tumultuous and passionate life."
"Murder in Ice is a mystery novel set in a small lake town in southeastern Wisconsin in the dead of winter in 1980. Matilda Roth Hamilton, a New York art magazine reporter, comes to this town to interview an artist who may be an undiscovered genius. Instead she finds herself at the very heart of two murders. The discovery of the first victim at a winter carnival has shocked the town; suspicion and fear are rampant. Fast on the heels of t ..."
Lorine Niedecker A Poet's Life von MargotPeters 326 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von University Of Wisconsin Pres ISBN-13: 978-0-299-28503-6, ISBN: 0-299-28503-0
"As a low-paid assistant librarian, Lorine was comfortable shelving books and
stamping cards at the Fort Atkinson library. ... like Olive Schreiner's The Story of
an African Farm, Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria, Carl Sandburg's Abraham
Lincoln, ... in old inkwells / almost dry”; in “Mourning Dove,” the felicitous vowel
play of “dee round silence / in the sound” of them. ... The Hartwig stead was
attractive, with narrow white clapb ..."
Summers A True Love Story von MargotPeters 230 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Xlibris Corporation ISBN-13: 978-1-4568-9713-0, ISBN: 1-4568-9713-6
"Friday, May 5, 1950 Dear Rob, I've lost 12 pounds, probably because I have
been wasting away in the infirmary for half the semester with I don't know what. I
look like ... The side that loves dancing, dacheries, night clubs, smoky dark
restaurants where they serve wonderful french-fried lobster—things like that. In
common with you I have our love of art, piano, movies, books, records, and a
general ability to have so much fun toget ..."
May Sarton Biography von MargotPeters 496 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-307-78853-5, ISBN: 0-307-78853-9
"“Not one single ad": MS to Eric Swenson [May 12, 1975]. "l lell, ifyou didn't": Eric
Swenson to MS, May 20, 1975, “undue admiration": Introduction to Mrs. Stet/ens (
reprint, 1974), xxi. Without notifying Heilbrun, MS had Norton omit her
introduction from a later printing. “The trouble is": Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,
New Ybrk Times, June 16, 1975, comparing Crucial Conversations to Christina
Stead's The Little Hotel, in which the ch ..."
May Sarton von MargotPeters Hardcover, 474 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Random House Value Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-517-27756-0, ISBN: 0-517-27756-5
"From acclaimed writer Margot Peters comes the first, completely authorized biography of novelist, poet, and feminist May Sarton. Granted unprecedented access to personal papers and diaries, Peters gives us a compelling look at the woman who influenced a legion of readers with rich and intimate writings, and reveals the fascinating life that Sarton herself kept hidden. Beginning with a young Sarton largely ignored by her parents, Peters ..."
MRS. PAT(1st Edition) von MargotPeters Hardcover, 531 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1984 von Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-52189-3, ISBN: 0-394-52189-7
"This 531-page hardcover was published by Knopf in 1984 (stated 2nd printing)."