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May 17, 2007 · A former editor at The New Yorker, Frances Kiernan is the author of The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story and Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy. She lives in New York City.
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In “The Last Mrs. Astor,” Kiernan acquaints readers with Mrs. Astor’s long, rich back story, soft-pedaling her subject’s flaws but taking care not to exaggerate her stature.
May 17, 2008 · The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story. Frances Kiernan. W. W. Norton & Company, May 17, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 352 pages. "Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far...
The Last Mrs. Astor – A New York Story. Paperback – Illustrated, 6 May 2008. by Frances Kiernan (Author) 4.1 241 ratings. See all formats and editions. The fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton.
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Frances Kiernan is the author of The Last Mrs. Astor (3.49 avg rating, 512 ratings, 59 reviews, published 2007), Seeing Mary Plain (4.11 avg rating, 27 r...
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Sep 21, 2018 · Writer and biographer Frances Kiernan is a former fiction editor for the New Yorker who has also worked as a book editor. Her two books of biography present the life stories of two women who were prominent and powerful in their respective areas of literature and philanthropy.
