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""[A] delightful compendium...based on exhaustive research and myriad interviews...[Alford] has a deliciously witty prose style."" -- ""Washington Post"" ""Mitchell's life, psyche, and evolving legacy are explored here in vivid technicolor...with the author's trademark wit and verve."" -- ""BookReporter"" ""Revealing anecdotes, sly asides, and piercing insights, along with devastating quotes from the icon herself...[Alford's] witty way into the material makes it all feel bracingly new."" -- ""The Independent (London)"" ""The book is an artfully designed collage of fact and feeling, and worthy of its subject."" -- ""Air Mail""

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Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who has written for The New Yorker for more than two decades. A former columnist for The New York Times and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he is the author of six books, including And Then We Danced, How to Live, Big Kiss, an account of his attempts to become a working actor, which won a Thurber Prize, and I Dream of Joni. Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who has written for The New Yorker for more than two decades. A former columnist for The New York Times and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he is the author of six books, including And Then We Danced, How to Live, Big Kiss, an account of his attempts to become a working actor, which won a Thurber Prize, and I Dream of Joni.

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