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Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life

Hardback

Main Details

Title Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Graydon Carter
Illustrated by Risko
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 239,Width 197
ISBN/Barcode 9781605295954
ClassificationsDewey:920.02
Audience
General
Illustrations 100 FOUR-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Publishing Details

Publisher Rodale Press
Imprint Rodale Press
Publication Date 13 October 2009
Publication Country United States

Description

Since 1993, Vanity Fair magazine has featured the celebrated Proust Questionnaire, in which a different noteworthy person each month answers the same series of probing personal questions. The questionnaire originated as a 19th-century parlour game popularised among friends of French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922), who believed that an individual's answers reveal his or her true nature. Illustrated by Risko, Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire brings together the responses of 100 of the most vibrant personalities of our time, from Bette Midler and Lauren Bacall to Salman Rushdie , from Martin Scorsese and Shirley MacLaine to Aretha Franklin and Eric Clapton. Hilarious, candid, and endlessly fascinating, this is a must-have collection for all connoisseurs of popular culture.

Author Biography

Graydon Carter is the editor of Vanity Fair.Robert Risko is one of the most renowned celebrity caricaturists working today. Since 1978, when Andy Warhol gave him his first assignment for Interview magazine, Risko has drawn portraits of hundreds of notables from the worlds of film and television, music and art, politics and literature. He lives in New York City.