Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

 
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Available IN PAPERBACK from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster: Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne Excerpts on The Daily Beast and Vanity Fair.com

According to LIZ SMITH's review of Stormy Weather:
"I wish I could do justice to this book. I cannot. It is impossible to convey its power ... Magnificent, gripping, marvelously written."

See also: Liz in Variety, The New York Times Book Review, O, the Oprah Magazine,Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Huffington Post, USA Today, Cindy Adams (New York Post), New York Newsday, Time Out New York,JazzTimes (Christopher Loudon), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Boston Globe, Vogue.com,Playbill.com, More.com, TrendHunter.com, Bay Area Reporter, The Defenders (Eise Nefertari Ulen), Library Journal, Alan W. Petrucelli's Entertainment Report, Gay City News, Edge (John Amodeo), All About Jazz, St. Petersburg Times, Indianapolis Star,National Examiner, Shreveport Times, Hilary Gardner's Ad Alta Voce, AOL News (by Willard Jenkins), Correio Brasiliense (Brasilia, Brazil; by Juan Weik), Jerry Jazz Musician and Cabaret Scenes interviews with James, and Corey Jarrell's I'll Keep You Posted.

NOW ON TOUR: STORMY WEATHER: THE LENA HORNE PROJECT starring MARY WILSON (formerly of the Supremes), JAMES GAVIN, and the LARRY DUNLAP TRIO (see Appearances)Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker has been republished by Chicago Review Press. Read Greil Marcus's review on Salon...

Read a lengthy one-to-one between James Gavin and Lee Mergner, editor ofJazzTimes 

My current biography-in-progress: PEGGY LEE!