I’m asking you, my able and loyal readers, to “come too” as I head into yet another revision of my biography on Doris Duke. Originally set to be published in 2016, it is now delayed until October, 2018.
Posts on the writing of my upcoming book
You can also find out more about The Silver Swan: Searching for Doris Duke on my dedicated Doris Duke bibliography page. For more of my writings on Doris Duke generally, visit this page.
An Independent Will
Charlotte Brontë described the alienation that colored my childhood, and the childhood of so many girls, then and now.
Divine Insecurity
Pip and I were on to adventure, on the edge of danger, full of life and energy—the way I want to live.
Commemorating What?
Memorial Day, commenced in 1866 as Decoration Day, was at first specifically meant to honor the Confederate dead; when it became a national holiday in 1921, it was renamed to honor the dead in all our wars, another effort to erase differences and commodify mourning.
Doris Duke Takes Another Step
I wonder what Doris would think if she could sit at the breakfast table with my editor and me and talk about who the book’s readers will be.
Doris Duke Moves into the Limelight
I am now reading, and occasionally wrestling with, what might be call the collision—or the creative cooperation—of two minds, essentially different: the mind of the writer and the mind of the editor.
Coming Soon: The Blue Box, Three Lives in Letters
The long waits publishing entrails always make me wonder why writers sometimes refer to their new books as their children; surely no pregnancy lasts two years or more, and few professional writers wait to see their next book launched before laboring mightily to begin the next one.
Hearing The News
For my “Doris,” a home at the university her father founded…you will understand my delight and appreciation as well as my humility in the face of the many challenges I will encounter as I being to write.