{"product_id":"9780374298821","title":"Lives and Letters","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLives and Letters\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Robert Gottlieb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, \u003ci\u003eLives and Letters \u003c\/i\u003espotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom dance and theater, Isadora Duncan and Margot Fonteyn, Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Hollywood, Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, Douglas Fairbanks and Lillian Gish, Tallulah Bankhead and Katharine Hepburn, Mae West and Anna May Wong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn New York, Diana Vreeland, the Trumps, and Gottlieb's own take on the contretemps that followed his replacing William Shawn at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so much more . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374298821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40593878909134,"sku":"9780374298821","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_91d449ba-3c54-44d1-8983-cd2caeaee6fa.jpg?v=1637795428","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374298821","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}