The Lord Balfour Hotel - Weisberg, Suzanne Jones
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A first book of poetry reflecting on the author's childhood living in her daddy's Art Deco hotel in 1940s South Miami Beach, where New York City mobsters, Batista's second favorite mistress, salsa music, and transvestites held sway. Includes musings about coming of age as a Jewish female art student in Florida and Philadelphia, chocolate truffles, why handsome men are like cakes, and her later life and loves as a professor's wife, a lawyer, and a devotee of Swinburne and Sappho.

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Produktbeschreibung
A first book of poetry reflecting on the author's childhood living in her daddy's Art Deco hotel in 1940s South Miami Beach, where New York City mobsters, Batista's second favorite mistress, salsa music, and transvestites held sway. Includes musings about coming of age as a Jewish female art student in Florida and Philadelphia, chocolate truffles, why handsome men are like cakes, and her later life and loves as a professor's wife, a lawyer, and a devotee of Swinburne and Sappho.
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Autorenporträt
Suzanne Jones Weisberg grew up in Miami Beach and Coral Gables, Florida. She attended the University of Miami on a full academic scholarship and earned a B.A. in art and art history. She attended Mexico City College, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Boston University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting. She was a founding member of the Women's Art Center in Philadelphia where she co-edited a poetry anthology titled "The Woman Poet." She was active in the feminist art movement in New York in the 1970s and was a founding member of the Soho 20 Gallery in New York City. She exhibited her paintings in many galleries and museums. Later, she attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and subsequently practiced law in trusts and estates. She now lives in Pacific Palisades, California.