Hirschfeld av Ellen Stern

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<B>The definitive biography of Al Hirschfeld, renowned caricaturist and artist.</B><BR><BR> Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. <I>Hirschfeld: The Biography</I> is the first portrait of the renowned artist's life—as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians, and—his favorite—celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the <I>New York Times</I> and other publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters, and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years.<BR><BR> He lived in Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a star-studded block where his closest friends—Carol Channing, S. J. Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene Dietrich, and William Saroyan—flocked in and out. He played the