Laura Claridge (born 1952 in

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known primarily for her biographies of major 20th century figures, forcing re-examination of popular icons including

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. Claridge was a tenured English professor at the

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until 1997. She received an award from the

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, and her 2008 biography of Emily Post received the J Anthony Lukas Award, administered by

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'', and the '' Christian Science Monitor''. Claridge has appeared on the Today Show on NBC,

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, CBS, NPR and

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. Claridge began her writing career as a British Romantic and feminist scholar. With Elizabeth Langland, she edited ''Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism'' (1990). In 1992 she wrote ''Romantic Potency: The Paradox of Desire''. ''Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence'' was published in 1998, as well as the following year in the UK, Germany, Spain, and Poland. ''Norman Rockwell: A Life'', the first critical biography of the popular American artist, appeared in the fall of 2001. ''Emily Post: Mistress of American Manners, Daughter of the Gilded Age'' was published in the fall of 2008. Laura Claridge's biography of the pioneering publisher and co-founder of Knopf Publishing, Blanche Knopf, ''The Lady with the Borzoi'' was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in April, 2016. The ''TLS'' hailed it as "an impressive achievement." ''The Lady with the Borzoi'' was a ''New York Times'' Editor's Choice. Laura Claridge lives in Saugerties, New York.

Bibliography

Books

* * * :''(Compilation edited by CSPAN's Brian Lamb. Contains "Laura Claridge on Norman Rockwell's Portraits of America" in addition to writers including Michael Moore, Maya Lin, Ann Coulter, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Simon Winchester, Isaac Stern, Sandra Day O'Connor and others.)" * * * * ** co-editor, with Elizabeth Langland

External links

Official website
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