Author Bio
Sherill Tippins moved to New York from Austin, Texas, at the age of twenty-two to pursue a career as a screenwriter and author. Ten years later, having settled with her husband and two children in Brooklyn Heights, a quiet neighborhood overlooking Manhattan at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, she began volunteering for a neighborhood meal-delivery program to the elderly and infirm. It was from one of these neighbors that she first heard of the extraordinary experiment in communal living—involving a British poet, a southern novelist, one of the world's great opera composers, and a celebrated stripper—that had taken place sixty years earlier just a few blocks from her home.
Her fascination with the house and its residents prompted her to begin collecting facts and anecdotes about their shared life in Brooklyn, and eventually to recreate their experience in February House, published in 2005.
Tippins' second work, published in 2013, tells the story of a century's worth of creative interaction and raucous living—stretching over the decades from Sarah Bernhardt to O. Henry, from Thomas Wolfe to Jackson Pollock, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and beyond—all set in New York's famous (and infamous) Victorian-era edifice the Chelsea Hotel. (From the publsiher.)
Inside the Dream Palace (Tippins) - Author Bio
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