LC control no. | n 83046511 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Kurth, Peter, 1953- |
Variant(s) | Kurt, Piter, 1953- Курт, Питер, 1953- |
Birth date | 1953 |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
Found in | His Anastasia, 1983: CIP t.p. (Peter Kurth) Aĭsedora, 2002: t.p. (Piter Kurt) Blogger website, Nov. 15, 2022 (PETER KURTH was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1953. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont, where he earned departmental honors in English and Theatre. His first book, ANASTASIA: THE RIDDLE OF ANNA ANDERSON (Little, Brown 1983), was an international bestseller and made into an NBC television miniseries. Kurth's biography of anti-fascist journalist Dorothy Thompson, AMERICAN CASSANDRA, also published by Little, Brown, won the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award as the best book about American journalism of 1990. In 1995-1996 Kurth was the author of TSAR: THE LOST WORLD OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA and co-author (with Eleanor Lanahan) of ZELDA: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF ZELDA FITZGERALD (Abrams). His most recent book, ISADORA: A SENSATIONAL LIFE, was published in 2001. Kurth's work has appeared in a variety of national publications. He has written extensively for SALON.COM and is "Crank Call" columnist for Vermont's SEVEN DAYS.) |