Milking the moon
Subtitle: a Southerner's story of life on this planet
By: Eugene Walter as told to Katherine Clark ; foreword by George Plimpton.
Contributors: Clark, Katherine.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Walter, Eugene, 1921-; Walter, Eugene, 1921- -- Friends and associates; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Europe; Americans -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Food writers -- United States -- Biography; Mobile (Ala.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Mobile (Ala.) -- Social life and customs; Southern States -- Biography; Europe -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Eugene Walter was the best-known man you've never heard of. In his 76 years, he ate of "the ripened heart of life," to quote a letter from Isak Dinesen, one of his many illustrious friends. He savored the porch life of his native Mobile, Alabama, in the 1920s and '30s. He stumbled into the Greenwich Village art scene in late-1940s New York. He was a ubiquitous presence in Paris's expatriate cafe society in the 1950s, where he was part of the Paris Review at its inception.

Perhaps most remarkably of all for a poor Southern boy, he spent the 1960s in Rome, where he participated in the golden age of Italian cinema - including a role in Fellini's 8 1/2 - and entertained some of the most famous people in the world.".

"As recorded by Katherine Clark toward the end of Walter's life, his story - enlivened with personal glimpses of luminaries from William Faulkner and Martha Graham to Judy Garland and Leontyne Price - is an eyewitness history of the heart of the last century and a pitch-perfect addition to the Southern literary tradition.

Most of all, this sumptuous oral biography conveys the spirit and charm of a truly unique American who defied the odds and authority, embarked on life, and went wherever his fancy and whimsy led him."--BOOK JACKET.