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James Gavin
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James Gavin

James Gavin has written about some of the most significant black musical figures of our time, including Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte, and Miriam Makeba. His 300+ CD liner note essays include Grammy-nominated article for the box set Ella Fitzgerald -... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. An honest story is the only story worth telling.
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My life in 8 words: "I live to pursue voices, words, and stories."
Stormy Weather is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 13, 2010
Stormy Weather will be released on April 13, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Stormy Weather will be released on June 23, 2009 in Hardcover
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Stormy Weather is now available in Hardcover
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Stormy Weather will be released on June 23, 2009 in eBook
Jun 23, 2009
Stormy Weather is now available in eBook
Jun 23, 2009
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. An honest story is the only story worth telling. Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers? A. Write. Q. Who are your favorite authors? A. Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Frank Rich, Derek Jarman, Patricia Morrisroe. Q. What comment do you hear most often from your readers? A. Oh, come on -- modesty forbids! Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time? A. 1. "One Christmas" (Capote) 2. "Mapplethorpe: A Biography" (Morrisroe) 3. "Modern Nature" (Jarman) 4. "The White Album" (Didion) 5. "Ghost Light: A Memoir" (Rich) Learn more about James Gavin

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Alameda Patch, February 9, 2012
...30 am–11:30 am On February 21, members will review "Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne" by James Gavin and/or "Paul Newman: A Life" by Shawn Levy in Room D at 9:30 am.  If you have any questions, please contact the Mastick Office at 747-7506. ...
New York Times, December 3, 2011
...union crumbled; Collins was increasingly on the road and drinking to excess, and she lost custody of Clark. James Gavin’s most recent book is “Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne...
New York Times, December 2, 2011
...union crumbled; Collins was increasingly on the road and drinking to excess, and she lost custody of Clark. James Gavin’s most recent book is “Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne...
New York Times, December 2, 2011
...union crumbled; Collins was increasingly on the road and drinking to excess, and she lost custody of Clark. James Gavin’s most recent book is “Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne...
Cleveland Live, November 11, 2011
...mention is that, most of the time, there aren't any. This was a big problem for critic James Gavin, also writing in The New York Times. He said the book is "more about the voice of its author . . . [who] becomes a fly on the wall of ages-old bedrooms...
Foreign Policy Magazine, October 7, 2011
...Gen. James Gavin a man after my own heart! Freeman’s superb three-volume history of the Army of Northern Virginia 'Lee’s Lieutenant’s' was not only Gavin’s delight but George...
The Best Defense, October 7, 2011
...If you were Maj. Gen. James Gavin, sleeping on the ground in Holland after Operation Market Garden, it would be this, as described in a letter to his daughter written in October 1944: Would you ask...
Silliman's Blog, October 6, 2011
...his son’s unvarnished ones Bert Jansch has died John & Alan Lomax(subscription required) Greil Marcus on James Gavin’sChet Baker bio Musical genius, MacArthur-style Will © stifle Hollywood? The films of Jane Campion(subscription required) Goodybe...