Jane Fonda by Patricia Bosworth
An irresistible biography of the accomplished, controversial actress whose roles on screen and off helped define a generation. Whether you love Jane Fonda or abhor her, Jane Fonda is a detailed and generous exploration not only of the contradictory world Fonda grew up in but of the many people who shaped her. Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass CastlePatricia Bosworth has gone beyond the image of an American superwoman to reveal a Jane Fonda more powerful and vulnerable than ever expected. Fonda emerged from a heartbreaking Hollywood family drama to become a 60s onscreen ingenue and then an Oscar-winning actress. At the top of her game she risked all, rising up against the Vietnam War and shocking the world with a trip to Hanoi. While becoming one of Hollywood s most committed feminists, she financed her husband Tom Hayden s political career in the 80s with exercise videos that began a fitness craze and brought in millions of dollars. Just as interesting is Fonda s next turn, as a Stepford Wife of the Gulfstream set, marrying Ted Turner and seemingly walking away from her ideals and her career. Fonda s multilevel story is a blend of the deep insecurity, magnetism, bravery, and determination that has fueled her inspiring and occasionally infuriating public life.
The definitive portrait of a woman conflicted, torn between ferocious ambition, family, and feminist causes. Gail Sheehy, author of Passages
The Private Life does Jane Fonda the service of making us remember why she was relevant in the first place: the movies. Bosworth s thorough account of this wild, uniquely twentieth-century Hollywood life makes Jane Fonda the actress even more intriguing. San Francisco Chronicle
[insert author photo] PATRICIA BOSWORTH, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, has known Jane Fonda since they were both students at the Actors Studio and has been writing about her since 1968. Bosworth has also written acclaimed biographies of Montgomery Clift, Diane Arbus, and Marlon Brando, as well as a family memoir, Anything Your Little Heart Desires.
PATRICIA BOSWORTH is an award-winning journalist and bestselling biographer and memoirist who works as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and a Front Page Award recipient. She was born in San Francisco and now lives in New York City. Patricia has taught literary nonfiction at Columbia University's School of Journalism and Barnard College, where she was a Senior Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program. She was a member of the Actors Studio's board of directors for many years and was in charge of the Playwrights-Directors Unit. HarperCollins will publish her latest book, The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan, in paperback in January 2018.
Everything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Tale was her first memoir, and it was about her family and the Hollywood Blacklist. She has also written biographies of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Diane Arbus, the photographer. Fur, a 2006 film starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., was inspired by her Arbus biography.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780547577654 |
| ISBN 10 | 0547577656 |
| Title | Jane Fonda |
| Author | Patricia Bosworth |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2012-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
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