Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words

Michael Owen

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Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Date

November 26, 2024

Biography
Film & TV
Memoir
Non-Fiction

The man behind some of the most memorable lyrics in the Great American Songbook steps from behind his brother's shadow.

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Rave Alexandra Jacobs,
The New York Times

Dignified but not starchy, efficient but not shallow, and honest about grief’s unrelenting toll ... Owen captures elegantly his survivor guilt.

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Rave Joseph Epstein,
The Wall Street Journal

At the close of Mr. Owen’s biography one feels that one knows Ira Gershwin—knows him and likes him. In these pages we learn what the world thought of Ira Gershwin.

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Rave David Keymer,
Library Journal

Great reading for more than music lovers. This will be the definitive book on Ira for a long time.

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