Back then
Subtitle: two lives in 1950's New York
By: Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan.
Contributors: Kaplan, Justin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Bernays, Anne -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Kaplan, Justin -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Biographers -- United States -- Biography.; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Novelist Anne Bernays, born in 1930, and biographer Justin Kaplan, born in 1925, both natives of New York, came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Back Then, written in two separate voices, is the candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books.

They both sought self-knowledge and realization through years of psychoanalysis. They brushed shoulders with celebrities like William Faulkner, Somerset Maugham, Marlene Dietrich, and Anatole Broyard.".

"Before Bernays and Kaplan met and married, each had enjoyed the sexual and social freedom that, along with the dark shadow of McCarthyism and the Cold War, was among the distinguishing marks of the 1950s. In many other respects, the story they tell could almost as well be about an earlier era."--BOOK JACKET.