Somewhere for Me
Subtitle: A Biography of Richard Rodgers
Publisher: Knopf
Published: November 6, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780375401640
First sentence: HERE COMES Jacob Levy trotting along the street, a tiny little man in a neat black suit and fussy bow tie, carrying a cane and sporting a white panama with a surprisingly rakish brim.
Description: "Everywhere regarded as one of our most brilliant composers - more than nine hundred published songs, forty Broadway musicals, numerous films, every award conceivable - Richard Rodgers, the man, has nonetheless been consistently misunderstood - seen as the almost stolid opposite of what he really was.".

"Now Meryle Secrest - biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright, Stephen Sondheim, and Leonard Bernstein - brings her skills to this full-scale life of Rodgers. She shows us for the first time the complexities of his nature, his emotional fault lines, and, most important, the well-springs of his art."--BOOK JACKET.