Haunted Heart is available in paperback in spring of 2008 - save money!
A humongous publication called the "African American National Biography"
is also coming out - Oxford U. Press. I contributed the bit about Dorothy Donegan, a wildly talented (wild IS the word) pianist who veered from dazzling
technique to slapstick - this is my opinion. She could play a whole lotta notes up there in shooting range of Mr. Tatum, but...
I'm working away - for once, fairly confidently - on a novel. It's called After Leaving America and is set in the early 1970's in Mexico. My how things have changed since the pre-internet, pre-cell phone et al., days.
Linda
A Biography of Susannah McCorkle
by Linda Dahl
The secret life and tragic death of a great American songbird
Linda Dahl
Author of Haunted Heart
About Me
Linda Links
About the author
Reviews of Haunted Heart
- The New York Times
- www.jbspins.blogspot.com
- www.johnpizzarelli.com
- Newsweek
- The New Republic
- Steve Goddard's History Wire
- New Music Box
About Haunted Heart
- Where to buy Haunted Heart
- Where to buy Susannah McCorkle's Music
- Where to buy More of Susannah McCorkle's Music
- Other books by Linda Dahl:
- Stormy Weather
- Morning Glory, a biography of Mary Lou Williams
- Come Back, Carmen Miranda
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3 comments:
Hey Linda,
Like...I want to read your novel...soon! OK. OK. Gotta cut down the instant grat stuff...First time on yr blog...will explore more fully later...I'm about half way thru "Feast of the Goat" and just "read" (via audible) "The Short Wondrous Life of Oscar W". Dominican double header. Why does American govt love dictators? They replaced Trujillo w scumbag henchman. But I should be probably leaving this elsewhere...I also love Nick and Nora...so much that I moved into a hotel...more than once...my Shepard "Max" was no "Asta" and couldn't stay...But I digress. Love yr whole mojo here...I listened to you on radio...Your voice exactly the same...yr humor too...and you look the same!! Almost...More later.
Yer old pal...Rico aka Tom Paine
A very incisive and revealing biography about an extraordinarily troubled singer. I have been a fan of Susannah McCorkel since the anthology LP Cole and The Music of harry Warren were issued by EMI & World record Club in England. However, I knew almost nothing about her as a person. Thanks, Linda. Michael
Linda....it's been many years, but I wanted to let you know that my husband, Dale Young, died a week before Thanksgiving. He would have been 91 on Turkey Day. I remember that we met at the library and had a lovely afternoon in Bryant Park.. He was always interested in Susannah, and meeting and talking with you was such a gift. Hope you are well, and still writing.
Debby Duffy Young
Lakewood, Ohio
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