RICHARD AVEDON

No one knew him better than did Norma Stevens, who for thirty years was his business partner and closest confidant. In Avedon: Somet hing Personalequal parts memoir, biography, and oral history, including an intimate portrait of the legendary Avedon studioStevens and co-author Steven M. L. Aronson masterfully trace Avedons life from his birth to his death, in 2004, at the age of eighty-one, while at work in Texas for The New Yorker