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By B. Alexandra Szerlip
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"In this fascinating and minutely researched biography, Szerlip brings the brilliant, indefatigable industrial designer's imagination to life...A remarkable rediscovery of a man ahead of his time." —Booklist / American Library Association (starred review)
“Set designer, automobile stylist, architect, founding father of American industrial design, inventor of genius, Norman Bel Geddes was volcanically talented and sui generis. In her lively and scrupulously well-researched biography, B. Alexandra Szerlip gives him a deserved place as a key visionary of modernity.” —Nikil Saval, author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace
“What a riveting story—of a gloriously giddy time when one man could revolutionize the way everything, from Broadway to kitchen scales, looks and works! Is being forgotten one of the ironic penalties of being an American visionary? Once you've succeeded in giving the future reality, the present no longer needs you. Thank you, Ms. Szerlip, for the vivacious restoration!” —John Guare, Playwright, Six Degrees of Separation
“I learned a lot about Norman Bel Geddes from B. Alexandra Szerlip's book. He was a complex, controversial genius, worthy of this biography. His visionary design of GM's Futurama exhibit for the 1939 NY World's Fair revolutionized people's thinking about the future.” —Don Norman, bestselling author of The Design of Everyday Things, and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
B. ALEXANDRA SZERLIP was a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellow, a Yaddo fellow, and runner-up for London's Lothian Prize for a first biography-in-progress. She has contributed to The Paris Review Daily and The Believer, among other publications, and has worked in professional theater, as a book editor, sculptor and graphic designer. Raised on the East Coast, she lives in San Francisco.
