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Sam Kashner

Biography

Sam Kashner

Sam Kashner is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and writer of SINATRALAND (a New York Times and L.A. Times Notable Book); WHEN I WAS COOL: My Life At the Jack Kerouac School; he co-authored the New York Times bestsellers FURIOUS LOVE: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century and THE FABULOUS BOUVIER SISTERS: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee.

Sam Kashner

Books by Sam Kashner

by Ash Carter and Sam Kashner - Biography, Entertainment, Nonfiction

The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness --- from The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America, The Birdcage, Working Girl and Primary Colors, not to mention his string of hit plays, including "Barefoot in the Park" and "The Odd Couple." If that weren’t enough, he was also one half of the timelessly funny duo Nichols & May, as well as a founding member of the original improv troupe. Most fans, however, know very little of the person behind it all. Here, for the first time, Ash Carter and Sam Kashner offer an intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols' life, as told by the stars, moguls, playwrights, producers, comics and crew members who stayed loyal to Nichols for years.

by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger - Biography, History, Nonfiction

When 64-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie’s 38-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members, friends and employees --- but nothing to her. "I have made no provision in this my Will for my sister, Lee B. Radziwill, for whom I have great affection, because I have already done so during my lifetime," read Jackie’s final testament. Drawing on the authors’ candid interviews with Lee Radziwill, THE FABULOUS BOUVIER SISTERS explores their complicated relationship, placing them at the center of 20th-century fashion, design and style.