William andrews clark, who made his money in copper. When pulitzerprizewinning journalist bill dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into american history. Bill dedman, coauthor of the biography, empty mansions. Untouched for 60 years, huguette clark s estate is ready for a glamorous 1940s dinner party as seen in the book empty mansions. He received the 1989 pulitzer prize in investigative reporting while writing for the atlanta journalconstitution and has written for the new york times. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named huguette clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen. That october brought the settlement of huguettes estate. The mysterious life of huguette clark and the spending of a great american fortune by bill dedman and paul clark newell jr. Huguette clark s apartments took up the entire eighth floor of the building and half the twelfth, or top, floor, for a total of fortytwo rooms and fifteen thousand square feet on fifth avenue, the most fashionable street in the most expensive city in america.
Indeed, the book starts out with its main author, pulitzer prizewinning. Pavilion at the 2014 gaithersburg book festival, held on the grounds of city hall. One of new york times critic janet maslins 10 favorite books of the year. See more ideas about mansions, gilded age and american mansions. Empty mansions and the mysterious life of huguette clark. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read empty mansions. There are photos of the property on the website for empty mansions. Inside the frozen in time mansions of american heiress huguette clark.
The mysterious life of huguette clark and the spending of a great american fortune from the book jacket. Inside the frozen in time mansions of american heiress. Explore the mysterious world of reclusive heiress huguette clark, with photos and videos from the no. The mysterious life of huguette clark and the spending of a great american fortune, written by investigative reporter bill dedman. The mysterious life of huguette clark and the spending of a great american fortune with clarks cousin, paul clark newell, jr. The mysterious life of huguette clark and the spending of a great american fortune paperback april 22, 2014. Eccentric heiresss untouched treasures head for the auction block huguette clark secretly spent her last 20 years. The mysterious life of huguette clark and the spending of a great american fortune kindle edition by dedman, bill, newell, paul clark.
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A childlike, selfexiled eccentric, huguette clark is the sort of of subject susceptible to a biography of broad strokes, which makes empty mansions, the first fulllength account of her life, impressive for its delicacy and depth. The reclusive, dollcollecting copper queen of fifth. Empty mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss. Clark who lived the last twenty years of her life in hospitals while her. In california, on the coast in santa barbara, was the clark summer estate, known as bellosguardo, or beautiful lookout. The mysterious life of huguette clark and the spending of a great american fortune, the booklength version of his nbc investigation, was released in september of 20 eat pray love director ryan murphy has since optioned the film rights.
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