A 650-page biography of the tempestuous life of Isadora Duncan is out. “Isadora is pieced together from a vast archive of love letters, magazine clippings, diaries, drawings and photos – to the extent that Peter Kurth’s job occasionally appears as much editorial as biographical.” Salon 11/12/01
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ISADORA – 10 YEARS IN THE MAKING
“I’m lucky. I signed to do Isadora Duncan’s biography 10 years ago, in another world, nation, century, millennium and life. My agent worked me like a dog on the proposal — he kept sending it back. It’s good, he’d say, but not good enough; more of this, less of that. I came down to New York from Vermont to meet some big editors, but ultimately decided to stay with Little, Brown. For a moment, I felt golden and secure. But I had two secrets no one knew about. The first was that I was dying of AIDS. The second was that I knew nothing about Isadora Duncan; nothing at all.” Salon 11/12/01