Artists & Authors : A Life in Good Company
Overview
Join a literary insider for a behind-the-scenes tour of art heists, opera icons, and the golden age of publishing. From the author of Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing comes this new collection of personal essays reflecting on the past fifty years of his pursuits and passions in literature, art, and music. Beginning with a memoir of his father's tutelage through letters to a young son away at school, it moves along to his "dual professions" on parallel tracks--book publishing and art history. Behind-the-scenes stories of famous Scribner authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe give way to the section on Scribner's forte, the art of the Baroque masters: a murderous Caravaggio and the two tycoons Rubens and Bernini. From his role in a sting operation to recover a stolen Rubens painting on Miami Beach to his personal profiles of three luminous sopranos--Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Frederica von Stade, and Mary Costa--Scribner shares a fascinating peek into the life and loves of a Renaissance man.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781493093632
- ISBN-10: 1493093630
- Publisher: Lyons Press
- Publish Date: February 2026
- Dimensions: 8.63 x 5.82 x 0.82 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.82 pounds
- Page Count: 200
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