Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire by Graydon Carter

Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire by Graydon Carter

An intimate look into the inner lives of our most prominent cultural figures- pulled from the celebrated Proust Questionnaire page in Vanity Fair magazine. The probing set of questions originated as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by contemporaries of Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that an individual's answers reveal his true nature. Illustrated by Risko, Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire Edited by Graydon Carter and Illustrated by Risko, brings together the responses of 101 of the most vibrant personalities of our time, from Bette Midler and Lauren Bacall to Salman Rushdie and Norman Mailer, from Martin Scorsese and Shirley MacLaine to Aretha Franklin and Eric Clapton. Candid, hilarious, and endlessly fascinating,

Graydon Carteris the editor ofVanity Fair. The American edition ofVanity Fairwas launched by publisher Conde Nast in 1913. Under the stewardship of editor Frank Crowninshield, who assigned most of the pieces in this volume, the magazine was a literary and visual treasure of the Jazz Age and featured an incomparable slate of writers through 1936, when it was folded intoVogueas a casualty of the Great Depression.Vanity Fairwas revived in 1983. Carter has been its editor since 1992.

David Friend, a writer, editor, producer, curator, and formerlyLifemagazine's director of photography, isVanity Fair's editor of creative development.

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ISBN 13	9781605295954
ISBN 10	1605295957
Title	Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire
Author	Graydon Carter
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Rodale Press
Year published	2009-10-13
Number of pages	224
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