James Lord (author)
James Lord (November 27, 1922 – August 23, 2009) was an American writer. He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso.[1][2][3] He appeared in the documentary films Balthus Through the Looking Glass (1996) and Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death (2001).
Biography
Lord was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up there. His father was a stockbroker, and until the Wall Street crash the family lived, as Mr. Lord put it, in "the lower echelons of the upper classes".[2]
He served in the United States Army during World War II, keeping his homosexuality carefully hidden.[4]
Lord attended Wesleyan University, though he never earned a degree.
He died in Paris in 2009, aged 86.[2]
Books (Biographies, memories and novels)
He was the author of the following works, among others:
- No Traveler Returns (1956, novel)
- The Joys of Success (1958, novel)
- A Giacometti Portrait (1965, biography)
- Giacometti: A Biography (1985, biography)
- Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir (1993, biography)
- Six Exceptional Women (1994)
- Some Remarkable Men (1996)
- A Gift for Admiration (1998)
- My Queer War (2010, posthumous)
- "Making Memoirs" (1995, biography)
- "Stories of Youth" (2001, fiction)
Essays
- Regard vers l'invisible / Looking at the invisible, in: Derrière le miroir, n°226, Paris: Maeght Editeur, December 1977. ISBN 2-85587-038-0 (Text in French and English.)
References
- ↑ Obituary for James Lord, The Guardian, September 24, 2009.
- 1 2 3 Grimes, William. "James Lord, Biographer and Memoirist, Is Dead at 86", The New York Times, August 27, 2009; accessed November 2, 2012. "Mr. Lord was born and reared in Englewood, N.J. His father was a stockbroker, and until the Wall Street crash the family lived, as Mr. Lord put it, in "the lower echelons of the upper classes".
- ↑ NNDb profile
- ↑ "Lord writes about 'the inconvenience of being queer' during the Second World War with unsparing bravery.", My Queer War (excerpt of a review on the back cover), Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York (2010); ISBN 978-0-374-21748-8 (hardcover).
External links
- James Lord's papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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