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ix, 225 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm Scholar, writer, biographer, aesthete, and impeccable host, Stanley Olson was, until a cruel stroke incapacitated him at 39 and killed him three years later, a much loved and admire member of London's literary world. The story of how he transformed himself from an American Jewish youth into an English eccentric and lived an extravagant life is beautifully told in this elegant chapter of transatlantic literary history Mr. Olson, who was born in Akron, Ohio, lived in Britain for 20 years and was the editor of Sir Harold Nicolson's ''Diaries and Letters 1930-1964'' (Atheneum), which was published in 1980. His biography of Sargent, the American expatriate painter who died in 1925, was published in 1986 by St. Martin's Press under the title ''John Singer Sargent: His Portrait.'' -- New York Times Obituary, Dec. 14, 1989 Includes index Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index

Author

Phyllis Hatfield

Publisher

André Deutsch

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780233988795

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography