Nancy Cunard: A Biography - Softcover

Chisholm, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014005572X ISBN 13: 9780140055726

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1981

Synopsis

From Wikipedia: Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 - 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound and Louis Aragon, who were among her lovers, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brāncuşi, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. MI5 documents reveal that she was involved with Indian socialist leader VK Krishna Menon. In later years, she suffered from mental illness, and her physical health deteriorated. She died at age 69, weighing only 26 kilos (57 pounds), in the Hōpital Cochin, Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 014005572X
• ISBN 13: 9780140055726
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512