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REVIEW: This exemplary biography is manifestly fascinating. (Baltimore Sun)REVIEW: [Olson has produced] an absorbing, detailed, comprehensive biography of this intriguing enigma of a man. (Library Journal)REVIEW: Olson`s prose is a rich, almost Jamesian affair, ferociously literate, archly elliptical. (The New York Times)REVIEW: Stanley Olson has written a superb account. (San Francisco Chronicle)REVIEW: John Singer Sargent is one heck of a good book. Read it. (The Washington Times Magazine)REVIEW: This biography conveys vividly and with considerable charm and wit a sense of the social world of the distinguished American portrait painter. (The Virginia Quarterly Review)REVIEW: This biography rescues Sargent....from the shadows of his famous subjects. (United Press International)AUTHORBIO: STANLEY OLSON, like Sargent, was an American expatriate; born in 1947 in Ohio, he lived in London from 1969 until his untimely death, from a stroke, in 1989. Scholar, writer, dandy, aesthete, gourmet, and impeccable host, he was a much-loved and admired member of London`s literary world. He authored Elinor Wylie: A Life Apart and edited the abridged Harold Nicolson: Diaries & Letters 1930-1964.
