Penelope Rowlands

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Penelope Rowlands
BornLondon, England
Occupation
  • Author
  • editor
  • journalist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican, British
Period1985–present
GenreBiography, Anthology
Website
Personal website

Penelope Rowlands is an Anglo-American author, editor, and journalist best known for her 2005 biography, A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters, [1] about the Irish-born editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar (from 1934 to 1958).

Contents

Biographies

A Dash of Daring

A Dash of Daring was published by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, in the US. The book was published in Britain by Simon and Schuster UK in 2006. A US paperback edition came out in 2008.

Suzy Menkes wrote in the International Herald Tribune that "Penelope Rowlands tells a dense, fast-paced story and deftly puts it in the context of magazine history.... Carmel Snow comes vividly to life. [2] The biography was excerpted in U.S. Vogue in September 2005. The British version of Harper's Bazaar also published an excerpt.

Rowlands also wrote short biographies of the European industrial designers Jean Prouvé and Eileen Gray, both published in 2002.

Anthologies

Paris Was Ours

Paris Was Ours is a collection of essays by thirty-two international writers on Paris and how it changed their lives. The anthology featured writing by Edmund White, Diane Johnson, the Cuban novelist Zoé Valdés, Judith Thurman, the Iraqi-born Assyrian editor Samuel Shimon and a homeless French blogger, among others. [3] [4] Rowlands edited the collection and wrote its final essay.

Paris Was Ours was chosen as the January 2011, Book of the Month by National Geographic Traveler magazine. [5]

The Beatles Are Here!

In 2014 Rowlands edited and contributed an essay to the anthology The Beatles Are Here! 50 Years After the Band Arrived in America, Writers, Musicians, and Other Fans Remember, with contributions by Gay Talese, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel, and Greil Marcus. The cover design of the anthology features a photograph of a young Rowlands, screaming and holding a sign, previously published in the New York Times. [6]

Journalism

Rowlands has written articles on cultural subjects for publications such as Vogue , The New York Times, WSJ. magazine, The Daily Beast , the Columbia Journalism Review , and ElleDecor. She has contributed historical essays and reporting to The American Scholar. In addition, Rowlands has been a contributing writer to Architectural Digest and a contributing editor to ARTnews and Metropolis magazines. She has written book reviews for the Wall Street Journal , the San Francisco Chronicle , and other publications.

Fellowships and awards

Leon Levy Fellowship, Summer / Fall 2019. The Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, The Frick Collection, New York City. [7]

Background

Born in London to an American mother and a British father, Rowlands migrated to the United States with her family at the age of five and was raised in her mother's native New York City. She is a citizen of both the U.S. and Great Britain. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.A. from Stanford University. She has lived in California and Paris but now resides in Princeton, New Jersey. [8] [9]

Published works

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References

  1. Rowlands, Penelope (November 12, 2008). A Dash of Daring. Atria Books. ISBN   9780743480468.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. Menkes, Suzy (May 31, 2006). "Priestess of the modern glossy". The New York Times. International Herald Tribune, retrieved September 26, 2013
  3. Cuthbert, Mike (February 1, 2011). "Paris Was Ours: A Parisian twist to life". AARP Prime Time Radio. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  4. Meadows, Susannah (February 16, 2011). "Newly Released Books". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  5. George, Don (January 5, 2011). "Book of the Month: Paris Was Ours, edited by Penelope Rowlands". National Geographic Traveler. Archived from the original on January 25, 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2013.
  6. "BEATLES AND FANS MEET SOCIAL SET; Chic and Shriek Mingle at Paramount Benefit Show". The New York Times. September 21, 1964.
  7. "The Center's Fall Fellows' Forum" . Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  8. Penelope Rowlands (January 31, 2011). "Paris Was Mine". The Telegraph. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
  9. "Interview with Penelope Rowlands, editor of Paris Was Ours". March 30, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2018.

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