Tana Wojczuk

Broschiertes Buch

Lady Romeo

The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity

Beschreibung

An illuminating and enthralling biography of trailblazing 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman reveals the force and vitality of this woman on and off the stage.

Autor

Tana Wojczuk is a contributing editor at Guernica and teaches writing at New York University. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Believer, Bomb, Narrative, Vice, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize judged by David Shields, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation fellow, Tin House Summer Writers Workshop poetry fellow, and research fellow in the New York University Global Scholars program. She received her MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. A Boulder native, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her first book, Lady Romeo: The Radical, Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity was a finalist for the Marfield Prize National Award for Arts Writing, Publishing Triangle award, and a LAMBDA Literary Award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9781501199530
• ISBN-10: 1501199536
• Artikelnr.: 61150257