{"product_id":"how-to-talk-to-famous-people","title":"HOW TO TALK TO FAMOUS PEOPLE","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in rural Oklahoma and later traveling west to the multi-cultural environs of the California Bay Area, Marianne Gage encounters a profusion of notable personalities: a famous cartoonist, an art professor, several well-known actors (including one musical comedy star), a presidential candidate, a young black revolutionary, a celebrated blind pianist, a jazz musician, and many more. Some of these meetings are pleasant and friendly; others are blundering and gauche. But they all add up to a lifetime of noteworthy experiences spanning the 20th century and leading into the 21st. In the final chapter, Gage and her husband host a fantasy party with all the luminaries in attendance, both living and dead. Noel Coward meets Huey Newton, Maria Tallchief gets to know Mercedes Ruehl, and a good time is had by all.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarianne Gage has published The Wind Came Running, The Putneyville Fables, All Kinds of Beauty, and The Quirky Kids of Sunshine Hollow. Gage, a former teacher in the Oakland public schools, is a portrait artist and printmaker. She was married for sixty-eight years to San Francisco illustrator Ed Diffenderfer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marianne Gage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44929033502881,"sku":"9781943471935","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/gj8gdn4-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1747590021","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-talk-to-famous-people","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}