Judy Crichton

Broschiertes Buch

Portrait of a Marriage

A Memoir

Herausgeber: Crichton, Jennifer

Beschreibung

"A powerful true story of two lovers...A tour-de-force memoir"-Kirkus Reviews In this moving memoir, Judy Crichton brings to life her turbulent marriage to novelist Robert Crichton and the exhilarating creative world of New York of the 1950s and 60s. He was a hard-drinking writer knocking around Greenwich Village, haunted by his time in World War II. She was an Upper East Side girl from a feckless family, out on her own and determined not to marry one of "the gray men" her grandmothers had in mind for her. Judy would go on to become an award-winning documentary producer. Bob would write three bestsellers, including The Secret of Santa Vittoria and The Camerons. But to get there, they had to wrestle with all they had been raised to believe-and needed to cast off-about the role of men and women at home and in the world. Like Shy, the memoir by Judy's cousin Mary Rodgers, Portrait of a Marriage brings the reader not only into the couple's private world but their swirling social world as well, one they shared with indelible figures such as poet Frank O'Hara, actress Marilyn Monroe, composer Richard Rodgers and legendary editor Robert Gottlieb. Intimate, truthful-yet never bleak or humorless-Judy's memoir is an unexpected page-turner. As New York Times bestselling novelist Cathleen Schine writes, "I love this book! Is it because of the love the author has for her charming, difficult, talented, impossible husband which animates every page? Or the portrait she paints of a lost New York City from Greenwich Village to Morningside Heights? Or the sense of a woman finding her own strength and mission? I do know this: I love this book!" Illustrated with photos throughout to capture these exciting, changing times.

Autor

Judy Crichton was among the first women to write, direct and produce documentaries at the CBS and ABC news divisions in the 1970s. Among her many works, she was most proud of "The CIA's Secret Army," which revealed the terrorist activities of Cuban exiles in Miami and the support they received from the CIA, and "The Battle for South Africa," one of the first U.S. media reports to interview future South Africa president, Thabo Mbeki.A lifelong New Yorker, Judy was born in 1930 and was married for over forty years to novelist Robert Crichton, who wrote the bestselling books, "The Great Impostor," "The Secret of Santa Vittoria" and "The Camerons." Judy chronicles their whirlwind courtship and difficult but thrilling marriage to her troubled yet charming husband in "Portrait of a Marriage: A Memoir."In the 1980s, Judy became founding executive producer of "American Experience," the landmark PBS history series. During her tenure, the series won seven Emmys; six Peabody Awards; five Writers Guild Awards; and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards. In 1998, Judy received the Writers Guild's Evelyn F. Burkey Award, a lifetime achievement award presented annually to a television writer. In 2000, Judy was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton who said, "In creating and producing "American Experience," she set a new standard for what television documentaries can be. With talent, passion and purpose, Judy Crichton has elevated a medium she loves and lifted all those who watch it." Crichton's first book was "1900: The Turning Point" (Holt 1998) about the significant events of that pivotal year. Judy died in 2007 at the age of 77, leaving her memoir unfinished at the time of her death. Her daughter Jennifer edited and assembled the drafts her mother left behind, and gave the book the title Judy had always wanted to use, even though another book by the same title had been published in the 1970s: "Portrait of a Marriage."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NORTH END BOOKS
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9798218522087
• Artikelnr.: 71884025