Nonfiction Book Club
Tuesday, November 03
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Central Library
Meeting 3 (3rd Floor)Discuss The Phantom of Fifth Avenue by Meryl Gordon.
Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in America, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances, Huguette began to withdraw from society–first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company.
Questions? Contact paigeb@deschuteslibrary.org, 541-617-7078
AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Adult Program |
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