“She Concocts A Fictionalized Life”: Norman Rockwell’s Family Furious Over Deborah Solomon’s Biography

The man depicted in Solomon’s new book “lived a far darker life” than the scenes he painted, “fraught with anxiety, depression, and loneliness. He was a twice-divorced, thrice-married repressed homosexual who gravitated toward men and boys.” It’s that last bit that has the Rockwells so upset.