Susan Mary Alsop (1918–2004)
Auteur de Lady Sackville: A Biography
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- Nom canonique
- Alsop, Susan Mary
- Date de naissance
- 1918-06-19
- Date de décès
- 2004-08-18
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Rome, Italy
- Lieu du décès
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Paris, France
- Études
- Foxcroft School, Middleburg, Virginia
Barnard College - Professions
- society hostess
author
magazine writer
biographer - Relations
- Alsop, Joseph (husband)
Patten, Bill (son) - Courte biographie
- Susan Mary Alsop was considered the grand dame of the Washington, DC social scene. At dinner parties in her Georgetown townhouse, she brought together men and women at the top level of politics, the media, and diplomacy. She was the daughter of a prominent family descended from John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States. Her father was a diplomat, and she was born in Rome, Italy, and grew up in Europe and South America. As a young woman, she went to work for Vogue magazine before marrying another diplomat, William Patten, Jr., at age 20 and going with him to his posting in Paris in 1944. There she successfully worked the diplomatic social circuit, hosting the rich and powerful and being described as "stylish, intelligent, loving and good, and very funny." After her first husband's death, she married journalist Joseph Alsop in 1961. It was then that she established herself as a Washington hostess and wrote several acclaimed books.
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 173
- Popularité
- #123,688
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 10