The Jewish Writer - Hardcover

Krementz, Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805060375 ISBN 13: 9780805060379

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1998

Synopsis

The noted photojournalist draws on her archive of photographs of the most important Jewish writers of the twentieth century to present an album of ninety pictures accompanied by an assessment of their significance

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Review:

Jill Krementz has made a career of photographing writers. The Jewish Writer features her portraits of 78 "people of the book," among them Saul Bellow, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Sendak, and David Mamet. Some of these portraits are contemplative; others are joyous. What distinguishes them is Krementz's ability to capture the essence of a moment that is at once exquisite and mundane, be it playwright Wendy Wasserstein rolling up her sleeves at her computer or an elfin Stanley Kunitz half-hiding in the blooms of his Provincetown garden. A mischievous Bruce Jay Friedman dashes around Southampton in a spiffy convertible; a bearded, bandana'd, and bespectacled Allen Ginsberg appears at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. (Though some of these photographs date from the early '70s, most are much more recent.) Each portrait is accompanied by a description of the author's life and work, and the relationship of each to Judaism, or, more accurately, Jewishness. The Jewish Writer is a spirited testament to the enormous and diverse contributions Jewish writers have made to our literary landscape. --Jane Steinberg

About the Author:

Jill Krementz is an acclaimed photojournalist and author portraitist. She has published best-selling books for children and grown-ups, most recently The Writer's Desk. This is her thirtieth book. She lives in New York with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805060375
• ISBN 13: 9780805060379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150