{"product_id":"artists-authors-a-life-in-good-company","title":"Artists \u0026 Authors: A Life in Good Company","description":"\u003cb\u003eJoin a literary insider for a behind-the-scenes tour of art heists, opera icons, and the golden age of publishing.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eScribners: Five Generations in Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e comes this new collection of personal essays reflecting on the past fifty years of his pursuits and passions in literature, art, and music. Beginning with a memoir of his father's tutelage through letters to a young son away at school, it moves along to his \"dual professions\" on parallel tracks--book publishing and art history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBehind-the-scenes stories of famous Scribner authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe give way to the section on Scribner's forte, the art of the Baroque masters: a murderous Caravaggio and the two tycoons Rubens and Bernini. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his role in a sting operation to recover a stolen Rubens painting on Miami Beach to his personal profiles of three luminous sopranos--Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Frederica von Stade, and Mary Costa--Scribner shares a fascinating peek into the life and loves of a Renaissance man.","brand":"Charles Scribner III","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47481789251820,"sku":"9781493093632","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781493093632.jpg?v=1775647355","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/artists-authors-a-life-in-good-company","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}