Meryle Secrest was born and educated in Bath, England, and lives in Washington, DC. She is the author of twelve biographies and was awarded the 2006 Presidential National Humanities Medal.
Books in order of publication:
Between Me and Life: A Biography of Romaine Brooks, 1974.
Being Bernard Berenson, 1979.
Kenneth Clark: A Biography, 1984.
Salvador Dalí, 1986.
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography, 1992.
Leonard Bernstein: A Life, 1994.
Stephen Sondheim: A Life, 1998.
Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers, 2001.
Duveen: A Life in Art, 2004.
Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject, 2007
Modigliani: A Life, 2011
Elsa Schiaparelli, 2014
The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World’s First Desktop Computer, 2019
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