Marion Meade - Works

Works

Biographies

  • Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull (1976)
  • Eleanor of Aquitaine (1977)
  • Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth (1980)
  • Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (1988)
  • Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase (1995)
  • The Unruly Life of Woody Allen (2000)
  • Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (2004)
  • Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney (2010)

Novels

  • Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard (1979), filmed as Stealing Heaven (1988)
  • Sybille (1983)

Narrative nonfiction

  • Bitching (1973)

Editor/forewords

  • A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick (foreword) (2005)
  • The Portable Dorothy Parker (editor, foreword) (2006)
  • The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud D’Usseau (editor, foreword) (2008)
  • Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker (foreword) (2010)

Selected articles

  • "Estate of Mind: Dorothy Parker willed her copyright to the NAACP—an organization her executor, Lillian Hellman, detested," Bookforum, (April/May 2006)
  • "Close to Home," American Theatre (April 2008)

Films and documentaries

  • Stealing Heaven (adapted from novel) (1988)
  • Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell? The Infamous Dorothy Parker (1994)

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