Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie mines this significant period of her life to reveal 3/5(7). An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn—author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books—Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts/5(K). "William Kuhn reveals the Jackie I knew as a person and professional: serious, smart, intuitive about ideas and aesthetics, but also down to earth in the sense of understanding the potential audience for a book. In Reading Jackie I learned so much about her I didn't know, and Kuhn tells the story with such flowing grace of phrase and structure.
READING JACKIE is a look at Jackie's private library. She revealed herself in surprising ways during her lifelong romance with books. Two cheerful fictions about life inside the royal household are MRS QUEEN TAKES THE TRAIN and PRINCE HARRY BOY TO MAN. I write biography, history, and offbeat biographical fiction. By William Kuhn. A book about books, which tell a story with a lifelong story maker, maybe even a myth maker. The + books edited by Jackie Kennedy Onassis reveals a little of how Jackie thought and/or lived. Her lifelong love for reading is blatantly clear. The books edited show her glamour, her interests, a small yet off shoot to her public. "William Kuhn reveals the Jackie I knew as a person and professional: serious, smart, intuitive about ideas and aesthetics, but also down to earth in the sense of understanding the potential audience for a book. In Reading Jackie I learned so much about her I didn't know, and Kuhn tells the story with such flowing grace of phrase and.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's. Among the important things that literature may well have done, according to William Kuhn's "Reading Jackie," was to rescue an intensely private figure from her all-too-public tragedies. The books. Reading Jackie provides a compelling behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: how she commissioned books and nurtured authors, as well as how she helped to shape stories that spoke to her strongly. Jackie is remembered today for her marriages to JFK and to Aristotle Onassis, but her real legacy is the books that reveal the tastes.
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