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1979., Knopf Call No: Bio C972c Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: She symbolized the twenties and scandalized the thirties; like a shooting star, she was beautiful, rebellious - and doomed.By all accounts Nancy Cunard was a bewitching woman.The only child of an American society hostess and an English baronet, she became the darling of high-cafe society in the twenties and thirties. She had an insatiable lust for life and lovers; her private affairs became public scandals. She knew TS Eliot, James Joyce, and Louis Aragon; she sat for Cecil Beaton, and Max Beerbohm sketched her; she was an Aldous Huxley heroine in Antic Hay. A poet and a writer, she was the avant-garde publisher who "discovered" Samuel Beckett. She was a passionate advocate of racial equality and a journalist in the Spanish Civil War. By the time of her tragic death in 1965 Nancy Cunard had become the dazzling symbol of her age.
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1968., Chilton Book Co. Call No: Bio C972f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Writings collected to document the life of Nancy Cunard.
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c2007., Columbia University Press Call No: SC Bio C972g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lois Gordon tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the tumultuous spirit of her age. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an American beauty, Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) abandoned the world of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a lifelong battle against social injustice as a wartime journalist, humanitarian aid worker, and civil rights champion. Cunard fought fascism on the battlefields of Spain and reported firsthand on the atrocities of the French concentration camps. Intelligent and beautiful, she romanced the great writers of her era. She was also a prolific poet, publisher, and translator and, after falling in love with a black American jazz pianist, became deeply committed to the civil rights movement.--From publisher description.
