Patricia Bosworth is a journalist and biographer. Her latest book is The Men in My Life.

“The [acting] rejections are hellish and ghastly. At least they were to me. And I got tired of being rejected so much and also tired of not being able to control my life. And as soon as I became a writer, I had this control, I felt more active, more energized. But it was a decision that took a long time coming.”

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Bosworth on Longform

[00:05] Heaven's Gate

[00:25] Snap Judgement

[01:25] The Fest Presents: The Longform Podcast with special guest Zoe Chace

[02:30] "Some Mother's Boy" (Atavist • Oct 2017)

[3:10] Diane Arbus: A Biography (Afred A. Knopf • 1984)

[03:10] Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (River Road Entertainment • 2006)

[3:20] The Men in My Life (Harper • 2017)

[5:55] Strumpet Wind (Gertrude Bosworth Crum • Covici Friede Publishers • 1938)

[6:20] The Tempest (William Shakespeare • Simon & Schuster • 2004)

[07:50] Colete’s Archive at The New York Times

[09:40] Bosworth’s Archive at Playbill

[09:45] The Nun’s Story (Warner Brothers • 1959)

[14:15] Stoner

[16:00] "To Vonnegut, the Hero Is the Man Who Refuses to Kill" (New York Times • Oct 1970)

[18:05] Montgomery Clift: A Biography (Harcourt • 1978)

[20:45] Marlon Brando: A Biography (Viking • 2001)

[20:55] Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2011)

[22:30] "New Documents" (The Museum of Modern Art • 1967)

[24:10] Harold Nemerov’s Archive at The Poetry Foundation

 

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