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Sherill Tippins

Biography

Sherill Tippins

Sherill Tippins is the author of INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel, and of FEBRUARY HOUSE: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten and Gypsy Rose Lee Under One Roof in Brooklyn. She lives in New York City.

Sherill Tippins

Books by Sherill Tippins

Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
by Sherill Tippins - History, Nonfiction

The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed FEBRUARY HOUSE, delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there.