Pentimento: A Book of Portraits
Portraits and recollections, marked by the playwright's characteristic wit, candor, and intelligence, are presented exactly as first published.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Year
- 1979
- ISBN-13
- 9780316355148
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Personal recollectionsPortraits of notable peopleLiterary life
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1974)
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