Back then
two lives in 1950's New York
by Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan
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"Novelist Anne Bernays, born in 1930, and biographer Justin Kaplan, born in 1925, both natives of New York, came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Back Then, written in two separate voices, is the candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books.
They both sought self-knowledge and realization through years of psychoanalysis. They brushed shoulders with celebrities like William Faulkner, Somerset Maugham, Marlene Dietrich, and Anatole Broyard.".
"Before Bernays and Kaplan met and married, each had enjoyed the sexual and social freedom that, along with the dark shadow of McCarthyism and the Cold War, was among the distinguishing marks of the 1950s. In many other respects, the story they tell could almost as well be about an earlier era."--BOOK JACKET.
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American Novelists, Biographers, Biography, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Novelists, American, Social life and customs, Authors, american, New york (n.y.), social life and customs, New york (n.y.), intellectual life, 20th Century American Literature, Biography & Autobiography, Biography / Autobiography, Biography/Autobiography, Literary, Biography & Autobiography / Literary, Bernays, Anne, Kaplan, Justin, Homes, Manners and customs, Literary landmarksPeople
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New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), United StatesTimes
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Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York
2013, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
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Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York
July 8, 2003, Harper Perennial
Paperback
in English
0060958057 9780060958053
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Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York
July 8, 2003, Harper Perennial
in English
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Back then: two lives in 1950's New York
2002, William Morrow
in English
- 1st ed.
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