9780393336115
The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter share button
Honor Moore
Format Paperback
Dimensions 5.40 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)
Pages 416
Publisher Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication Date May 2009
ISBN 9780393336115
Book ISBN 10 0393336115
About Book

“A striking portrait of a woman artist’s struggle for life.” —Arthur Miller

Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.

Reviews

Boston Globe

Engrossing, beautifully written . . . but also touching in its candor about the flawed character of a beloved relation.

New York Review of Books

It is a virtue of this autobiographical biography that it succeeds in evoking the unfathomable nature of a personality.

New York Times Book Review

Haunting and . . . complex . . . part biography, part memoir, of the woman who happened to be [Honor Moore’s] grandmother.

The Nation

Ambitious and searching . . . as rich in casually telling detail as only an authentic family album could be.

Publishers Weekly

A chronicle of a high-born, spirited woman's fight for creative expression and her own sanity at the dawn of modern art. (July)