Saturday, June 9, 2012

Six notable books about artists

Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. The author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series, Very Valentine; Brava, Valentine; Lucia, Lucia; The Queen of the Big Time; and Rococo, she has also written the best-selling memoir Don't Sing at the Table as well as the young adult novels Viola in Reel Life and Viola in the Spotlight.

Her latest novel is The Shoemaker's Wife.

One of Trigiani's six favorite books about artists, as told to The Week magazine:
I, Fellini by Charlotte Chandler

If you want to know what it would have been like to know director Federico Fellini and share a long al fresco lunch with him, read Charlotte Chandler's delicious biography of the Italian master.
Read about the other books on Trigiani's list.

Visit Adriana Trigiani's website.

--Marshal Zeringue