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Laura Claridge

Biography

Laura Claridge

Laura Claridge's books include TAMARA DE LEMPICKA: A Life of Deco and Decadence; EMILY POST: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of America; and NORMAN ROCKWELL: A Life. A frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor and others, she lives in the Hudson Valley.

Laura Claridge

Books by Laura Claridge

by Laura Claridge - Biography, Nonfiction

Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. As Knopf celebrates its centennial, Laura Claridge looks back at the firm's beginnings and the dynamic woman who helped to define American letters for the 20th century. Drawing on a vast cache of papers, Claridge also captures Blanche's "witty, loyal, and amusing" personality, and her charged yet oddly loving relationship with her husband.