Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies (Paperback)
Description
Lauren Redniss, acclaimed author of the brilliant biography-in-collage Radioactive, delivers a stunning visual journey through the life of the last Ziegfeld girl, Doris Eaton Travis. Now in paperback for the first time, Century Girl spans the brightest moments in early show business, the major historical landmarks of the 20th century, and the intimate milestones of one woman’s long life. Incorporating hundreds of archival photos and personal clippings with inventive line drawings and a compelling, hand-written narrative, Century Girl is a more than a biography, more than a graphic novel, and more than an art book—it is a singularly original and major work of art that Slate magazine calls “a visually dazzling mÉlange . . . unlike anything . . . ever seen before” (Best Books of 2006).
About the Author
Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies. A graduate of Brown University and the School of Visual Arts, she is a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2008-2009 she was a Fellow at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers, where she completed work on Radioactive. Lauren Redniss is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and teaches at the Parsons School of Design. She lives in New York City.
Praise for Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies…
“Striking and unique. . . captivating readers by twining simple, evocative text with a stunning array of images.”
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“My favorite new book this year. . . a visually dazzling melange. . . unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.”
-Slate (best books of 2006 pick)
“The opposite of a page-turner: it’s a page-stopper, a page-savorer, in short: an unmitigated delight.”
-Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences
“Doris Eaton is the darling of Broadway, a New York treasure.”
-Nils Hanson, National Ziegfeld Club
“With Century Girl, Lauren Redniss creates an entirely new genre of biography.”
-Nylon magazine
“Lauren Redniss takes a graphically provocative approach in telling [Doris Eaton Travis’s] story.”
-Daily News
“I wish Lauren Redniss would write and illustrate my biography in the dreamy, luminous way she did Doris Eaton Travis’s.”
-Maira Kalman, author and illustrator
“Not only did Doris Eaton Travis break records for accomplishment and humanity, she also had great hair and shoes.”
-Isaac Mizrahi
