Victoria Wilson is a vice president and senior editor at Alfred Knopf, and the author of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck. She grew up on Martha’s Vineyard and lives in New York City and upstate New York.
"Monumental... A vivid portrait of the entire era in which she
flourished."
*Peter Bogdanovich*
“Barbara Stanwyck was one of the very great loves of my life and
Victoria Wilson's book told me so much more than Barbara herself
could tell anybody. She has captured her loyalty--her
professionalism--her anger and her undeniable will to stay in the
game of life and, perhaps most importantly--her loneliness.
Victoria has been ‘steel true’ to her.”
*Robert Wagner*
"If ever there was an actress who was ready for prime time, it is
Stanwyck, and this enormously informative tribute – juicy, yet
dignified, admiring yet detached – is the book to bring her to
center stage."
*New York Times Book Review*
“You’ll love this book. The story is full of flavor with details
that create a kind of chiaroscuro painted deftly with a soft brush,
of our life at that time... Wilson’s scholarliness on the subject
of the life of a movie actress, a movie star whose career ran (she
worked) for six decades, is awesome... If you are a movie fan, a
filmmaking fan, a fan of Hollywood history, a filmmaker, or would
be, should be, could be, or even just a person who is completely a
TCM addict, this book you should be reading... I finished reading
much to my disappointment (wanting more) after 860 pages.”
*New York Social Diary*
"I was blown away, absorbed, riveted. What great smooth style, what
brilliance, what depth. This is huge and wonderful and rich. What
an achievement!"
*Anne Rice*
“This biography, when completed, will be the last word on
Stanwyck.”
*Indiewire*
“Immensely detailed, authoritative, compulsively readable... It
will come to be considered a classic.”
*author of Spencer Tracy*
"A stunning achievement.”
*Meryle Secrest*
“One hopes that the wait for Ms. Wilson’s second volume won’t be as
long as World War II, since ‘Steel-True’ is so readable, and as
direct as its subject. I couldn’t put it down. . .”
*The New York Times*
“I am loving your Barbara Stanwyck--you bring that whole period of
time so brilliantly to life. I am already in love with her and so
so angry at Frank Fay! Thank you for this wonderful, delicious
book!"
*Susan Cheever*
“Monumental in every sense...sweeping and authoritative...written
with verve and with great empathy and relish for her subject. The
author is also shrewd about the actress’s complexity and human
limitations... she is smart about the films and about the history
and business of Hollywood in the Golden Age. Not the least of her
achievement is leaving the reader eager to read volume two.”
*author of The Dark Side of the Cinema; A Method to Their
Madness*
“A fabulous and expansive examination of the life of an iconic
American actress.”
*Booklist (starred review)*
“Steel-True courts the definitive…The voice of Steel-True is
passive, reportorial, almost choral. Applied to Wilson’s landmark
recovery and synthesis of 1920s and ’30s Broadway and Hollywood
history, it works beautifully…Wilson is a bold and determined
architect, and ultimately succeeds in tracing, via some of
Hollywood’s most brilliant minds and celebrated careers, the
evolution of both an industry and an art form during one of its
most hallowed and productive periods.”
*Slate Magazine*
“Wilson’s book is indeed a monument of research. . . . A Life of
Barbara Stanwyck will unquestionably remain the biography of
record; beyond Wilson’s excavation of so much that would otherwise
have been lost, her book has a deep sensitivity to the seriousness
and subtlety of Stanwyck’s craft. This is the biography not of a
Hollywood phenomenon but of a serious artist.”
*BookForum*
“What you have done is extraordinary. It is an amazing book,
brilliantly written, enhancing the whole life, Barbara’s life,
happenings around her—people of the industry, people in the theater
and in politics. The way you have shown her life to include other
situations, all that you interject . . . it makes her life, to me,
more historically important. You have brought her wonderful career
magnificently to life, and as her friend, I thank you.”
*Barbara Stanwyck’s closest friend*
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