

Vanity Fair's Proust questionnaire
by Graydon Carter, Robert Risko
224 pages2009RodaleISBN 9781605295954
About this book
An intimate look into the inner lives of our most prominent cultural figures— pulled from the celebrated Proust Questionnaire page in <i>Vanity Fair </i>magazine. The probing set of questions originated as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by contemporaries of Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that an individual's answers reveal his true nature. Illustrated by Risko, <i>Vanity Fair's Proust </i>Q<i>uestionnaire </i>Edited by Graydon Carter and Illustrated by Risko, brings together the responses of 101 of the most vibrant personalities of our time, from Bette Midler and Lauren Bacall to Salman Rushdie and Norman Mailer, from Martin Scorsese and Shirley MacLaine to Aretha Franklin and Eric Clapton. Candid, hilarious, and endlessly fascinating,
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Rodale
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9781605295954
- Language
- en
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