James Lord (author)

James Lord ( born November 27, 1922 in Englewood (New Jersey); † August 23, 2009 in Paris, France ) was an American writer and biographer.

Life and work

Lord attended the Wesleyan University without excel. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he volunteered for the army and served in the Military Intelligence Service. He ended 1944 with the Allies in Normandy and returned back to France in 1947. Lord had visited Pablo Picasso in 1944 and renewed the contact. He learned other important personalities and artists such as Gertrude Stein and Arletty, but especially Alberto Giacometti, with whom he had been friends since 1952, when he was the model and its authoritative biography he has written. Another major work, the first three volumes of his memoirs in the form of prose portraits.

1952 James Lord founded along with John Rewald Cézanne Memorial Committee to Cézanne's studio in Aix -en- Provence to protect it from demolition. The studio could be saved with the help of American donations and handed over to the University of Aix -Marseille. In the studio, a museum has been housed since 1954.

Writings

• No Traveller Returns: A Novel. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956
• The Joy of Success: A Novel. J. Day Co., 1958
• A Giacometti Portrait. MoMA, New York 1965 Alberto Giacometti - A Portrait. Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt am Main 1984. ISBN 3-548-60097-2

• Alberto Giacometti - a biography. Scherz, Munich 1987. ISBN 3-85881-157-2

• Picasso and Dora Maar. A personal memory. Matthes and Seitz. 1994

• Exceptional Women - Six Portraits. Matthes and Seitz 1999, ISBN 3-88221-803-7 ( Alice B. Toklas, the partner of Gertrude Stein, Arletty, Marie- Laure de Noailles, Errieta Perdikidi, Louise Bennett Lord, and his mother )

• Some notable men - more memories. Matthes and Seitz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88221-819-3 (including Balthus, Alberto Giacometti, Harold Acton, Jean Cocteau )