6/23/2023 0 Comments American eve by paula uruburuThaw was acquitted by reason of insanity, but the real story behind the “Crime of the Century” was the rise and fall of that young woman, illuminated vividly in Paula Uruburu’s AMERICAN EVE: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White and the Crime of the Century (Riverhead Books Publication date: Price: $27.95). The woman at its center was Helen of Troy and Delilah rolled into one: the original Gibson Girl, the first “It Girl,” the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing-the first supermodel celebrity, Evelyn Nesbit. Thaw for the murder of his wife’s lover-renowned New York City architect Stanford White-engendered an unprecedented media frenzy. One hundred years ago, the trial of millionaire Harry K. A native New Yorker (with deep family roots in Greenpoint, Brooklyn), she lives in Lindenhurst, NY in a haunted house built in 1890. Acknowledged as the expert on Evelyn Nesbit, aka The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, she has acted as a consultant to A&E, PBS, the History Channel, and the Smithsonian Channel She is a specialist in American Literature (favorites: Poe, Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, the Gothic and Grotesque), women’s studies, film history, and 19th and 20th Century American popular culture. Paula Uruburu is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Hofstra University on Long Island where she also teaches film courses and is the Acting Vice Dean of the School for University Studies.
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