Carolyn Burke
Carolyn Burke (born 1940[1]), is an Australian-born American biographer, art critic, and translator. Her main focus is on feminist studies and strong independent artistic women of the 1920s through the 1940s.
Born in Sydney, Australia, she lived in Philadelphia and spent many years in Paris, and now lives in Santa Cruz, California.[1]
Burke has taught at Princeton and the University of California at Santa Cruz and at Davis; at the Universities of Western Sydney and New South Wales in Australia; and at the Sorbonne and the University of Lille in France.
She is the author of Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy (1996), about the noted poet, which earned prominent reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Nation. Burke's work Lee Miller: A Life (2005) was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Biography award about the model turned photographer, and her book about the iconic French chanteuse entitled No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf (2011).
Burke has spoken at writers’ festivals and literary events in the U.S., U.K., France, and Australia. Her appearances include campuses (Princeton, Getty Research Institute, New York University’s Maison Française, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney); radio and television in San Francisco, New York City, and Sydney; and cultural groups (National Arts Club, New York; Metropolitan Club, San Francisco; Lyceum Club, Sydney; Monterey Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art).
Bibliography
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Books
- Burke, Carolyn (2011). No regrets : the life of Edith Piaf. Knopf.
Interviews
- Brown, Pam (1998). "Carolyn Burke in conversation with Pam Brown about Mina Loy". Jacket. 5. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- Eaton, Oline (March 1, 2012). "Carolyn Burke : No regrets : the life of Edith Piaf". New Books in Biography. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- Fidler, Richard (May 19, 2011). "Carolyn Burke : Biographer Carolyn Burke has unravelled the myths, rumours and half truths surrounding Edith Piaf". Conversations with Richard Fidler. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Local Radio. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
Critical studies and reviews
- Gavin, James (March 27, 2011). "The Rise of Édith Piaf". Sunday Review Books. The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- Nettelbeck, Colin (September 2011). "Sparrow on the Eiffel Tower". Australian Book Review. 334: 42–43.
References
- ^ a b Greenwood, Helen (January 7, 2006), "Shoot for Success", The Sydney Morning Herald
External links
- Carolyn Burke's official website
- Carolyn Burke (author profile). at Random House.
- American biographers
- American women non-fiction writers
- Living people
- Columbia University alumni
- 1940 births
- Princeton University faculty
- University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
- University of California, Davis faculty
- Australian emigrants to the United States
- Women biographers
- Australian art critics
- American art critics