Inventing Elsa Maxwell: How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World

by Sam Staggs

Book Overview

One of the twentieth century's most colorful characters brought back to life in this biography by the author of "All About All About Eve"With "Inventing Elsa Maxwell," Sam Staggs has crafted a landmark biography. Elsa Maxwell (1881-1963) invented herself not once, but repeatedly. Built like a bulldog, she ascended from the San Francisco middle class to the heights of society in New York, London, Paris, Venice, and Monte Carlo. Shunning boredom and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312699441
• ISBN13: 9780312699444
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"