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| Born | January 14, 1951 (age 73) Andover, Massachusetts |
| Language | English |
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| Spouse | Lee D. Stern |
Patricia Morrisroe (born January 14, 1951) is an American journalist and author, best known for writing the biography of Robert Mapplethorpe. [1] Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , [2] Vogue , [3] New York Magazine , [4] and others.
Patricia Morrisroe was born in Andover, Massachusetts. [5] Her father, Lawrence P. Morrisroe, was a banker, [6] and her mother was Eileen Flynn. [6] She graduated from Tufts University, earning a B.A. in English.
She received an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University.
After graduating, Morrisroe worked for a year as a reporter and film critic at the Eagle-Tribune, a daily newspaper covering Massachusetts and New Hampshire. [7] During the 1980s, she was a contributing editor at New York Magazine, writing over 50 features [4] including several dozen cover stories. [8] Among the most notable were "The Death and Life of Perry Ellis," about the fashion designer's secret battle with AIDS, [9] and "Bess and the Mess," about the political misfortunes of former Miss America Bess Myerson. [10]
Morrisroe has also written profiles for London's Sunday Times Magazine , including an interview with writer Raymond Carver which was included in the book Conversations With Raymond Carver. [11] Her journalism and essays have been published in Vogue, [3] Vanity Fair, [12] the New York Times, [2] Elle Décor, Departures, [13] and Travel & Leisure. [14] Her essay "Swept Away" was included in Nostalgia in Vogue, a 2011 compilation of coming-of-age essays from the Vogue Nostalgia column, alongside other contributions by Joan Didion, Karl Lagerfeld, Nora Ephron, Patti Smith, and others. [15]
In 1988, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe selected Morrisroe to write his biography. She interviewed 300 people for the book and spent six months with Mapplethorpe before he died of HIV/AIDS. [16] Mapplethorpe: A Biography was published by Random House in 1995. [17] Foreign editions were published in the UK, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, and Brazil. Art critic Arthur C. Danto, writing in The Nation , praised it as "utterly admirable ... The clarity and honesty of Morrisroe's portrait are worthy of its subject." [18]
Morrisroe's other non-fiction books include Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia (2010) and 9 1/2 Narrow: My Life in Shoes (2015). Her debut novel, The Woman in the Moonlight, was published in 2020. The book centers on the imagined relationship between Beethoven and Countess Julie Guicciardi, [19] to whom Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Piano Sonata No. 14) was dedicated. As part of the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 2020, Morrisroe wrote articles for the New York Times exploring lesser-known figures in the composer's life. [2]
Morrisroe is married to Lee D. Stern. She lives in New York City and Westchester. [20]
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil Countess Julie "Giulietta" Guicciardi. The name Moonlight Sonata grew popular later, likely after Beethoven's death.
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, recording the complete sonatas of both composers. He is considered to have been one of the chief exponents of the Germanic tradition during the 20th century and one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. His most controversial works documented and examined the gay male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
David Lipsky is an American author. His works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, Time, Amazon, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR Best Books of the Year, and have been included in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Short Stories collections.
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The Perfect Moment was the most comprehensive retrospective of works by New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The show spanned twenty-five years of his career, featuring celebrity portraits, self-portraits, interracial figure studies, floral still lifes, homoerotic images, and collages. The exhibition, organized by Janet Kardon of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Philadelphia, opened in the winter of 1988 just months before Mapplethorpe's death from AIDS complications on March 9, 1989. On tour, in the summer of 1989, the exhibition became the centerpiece of a controversy concerning US federal funding of the arts and censorship.
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