Menotti: A Biography [Hardcover]

John Gruen (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 242 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co (May 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0025463209
• ISBN-13: 978-0025463202
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,405,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Gruen has written for "The New York Herald Tribune" and "The New York Times." He was the chief art critic for New York magazine, an arts columnist for Vogue, contributing editor to "ArtNews," writer for "Architectural Digest," and senior editor at "Dance Magazine." He has previously written 15 books, including biographies on conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, composer Gian Carlo Menotti, dancer Erik Bruhn, and artist Keith Haring. He is also a published photographer who has exhibited widely and authored three photography books, "Facing the Artist" (Prestel, 1999), "The Sixties: Young in the Hamptons" (Charta, 2006) and "As Time Goes By" (Edition One Books, 2011.) Three hundred of his artist portraits are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. John Gruen and his wife, painter Jane Wilson live in New York City and Water Mill, NY. Their daughter, Julia Gruen, is the Executive Director of the Keith Haring Foundation.