BOOK/MAGAZINE: Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

Though still in progress with James Gavin's thick new volume on the life & times of the recently departed ancestor Lena Horne, several in-progress observations give high marks to the writer's thorough, detailed efforts. Gavin, who penned the equally-rewarding Chet Baker bio The Long Night of Chet Baker, details La Horne's vivid and often troubling life, a life full of seemingly equal measures of heartache & triumph from the moment of her life's inception in Brooklyn, pulls no punches in telling ...

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