Marion Meade is the author of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Dorothy Parker, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. She lives in New York City.

A joint biography of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March 2010. This snapshot of their brief lives is presented against a panoramic background of the Jazz Age and the Great Depression, with a supporting cast that includes many of the literary, theatrical, and movie notables of their era.


Works by Marion Meade:

Biographies
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase
The Unruly Life of Woody Allen
Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull

Novels
Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard
Sybille

Editor
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud D'Usseau
Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker