In 1974 Goldsmith became Senior Editor of Harper’s Bazaar, attracting top writers to the publication. Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Pierre Cardin, and Marc Bohan of Dior. In 1968 Goldsmith wrote 'Bacall and the Boys,' a television special about Lauren Bacall in Paris with then young, unproven avant-garde designers-Yves St. In 1967, after the Tribune failed, Goldsmith provided Felker with the money to purchase the name “New York.” In 1968 she became a founding editor and writer of New York magazine, where she wrote not only about art, but also about the colorful characters in the art world. The series caught the eye of Clay Felker, editor of the Sunday magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune.

Pei, George Balanchine and Pablo Picasso, among others. In the late 1960s she initiated the 'The Creative Environment' series of the creatie process, based on in-depth interviews with Marcel Breuer, I.M. In her early twenties, she wrote a series of prize-winning profiles of such Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, and Audrey Hepburn. Her first assignments as a journalist were in the art field, where she simultaneously amassed an art collection comprising mostly contemporary American painting and sculpture. She was born in New York City and received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College, after which she took art courses at Columbia University. She has received critical and popular acclaim for her best selling books, essays, articles and her philanthropic work. ( Hardcover inside flap.)īarbara Goldsmith is an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. Using original research (diaries, letters, and family interviews) to peel away the layers of myth, Goldsmith offers a dazzling portrait of Marie Curie, her amazing discoveries, and the immense price she paid for fame. In Obsessive Genius, the acclaimed author and historian Barbara Goldsmith has discovered the woman behind the icon we have come to believe in-an all too human woman trying to balance a spectacular scientific career with the obligations of family, the prejudice of society, the constant search for adequate funding, and the battle for recognition. While her work won her two Nobel prizes and transformed our world, it did not liberate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific community or society. Madame Curie's shrewd but controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be used to discover new elements.

The myth of Marie Curie-the penniless Polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills, including cancer-has obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

Obsessive genius by barbara goldsmith