Cover of Vanity Fair's Proust questionnaire

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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