The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired (Harper Collins)
Francine Prose's new book is a series of "brief lives" of women
who inspired famous men, from the real-life Alice of Alice in
Wonderland to Yoko Ono. Hear about the odd couplings of the
unsocialized Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Dali, the sex-crimes of the
pre-Raphaelites, and the three-way rivalries engineered by Lou
Andreas-Salome. The conversation is a tabloid collage of intellect and
sexuality informed by Ms. Prose's cool wit.
Read an excerpt from The Lives of the Muses
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