Marion Meade is een Amerikaanse biografe en romanschrijfster wier onderwerpen variëren van de Franse koninklijke familie uit de 12e eeuw tot stand-up komieken uit de 20e eeuw. Ze staat vooral bekend om haar scherpe portretten van literaire figuren en iconische filmmakers. Haar schrijven blinkt uit in diep psychologisch inzicht en haar vermogen om de lezer mee te nemen naar de historische periodes die ze onderzoekt. Meade brengt levens uit het verleden meesterlijk tot leven en onthult hun complexiteit en menselijkheid.
A compassionate and comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England, she became the key political figure of the 12th century. A stunning biography of one of the most exciting and powerful personalities of all time.
Marion Meade tells the whole story of Woody Allen's life, from his working class beginnings in the Bronx, through his early career as a gag writer for New York newspaper columnists, his struggles as a stand-up comedian, to his break-through into films with What's New Pussycat (which he wrote and starred in alongside Peter O'Toole). As a writer/director he has made many films most notably Annie Hall (starring Diane Keaton with whom he lived for many years), Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters (with Mia Farrow, with whom he had a 13 year relationship) and Broadway Danny Rose. Marion Meade's is an unauthorised life, but many of those close to Allen both professionally and personally have talked as her previous books on Keaton and Dorothy Parker were widely praised.
Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.
Tout ce que voulez savoir sur cet individu tourmenté est raconté dans cette passionnante biographie : l'enfance de Woody, l'acteur comique et le metteur en scène, ses films, ses relations avec les femmes, en particulier ses tribulations récente avec Mia, son ex-femme, son remariage avec Soon-Yi, sa "fille adoptive" et bien d'autres détails sur le marasme de sa vie privée. [SDM]