Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera (Discovery Series)
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Review "At last, a full-length biography of the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera. . . "--"London Review of Books Read more About the Author Patrick Marnham's books include Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa; The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon, which won the Marsh Biography Award and was nominated for a 1994 Edgar Allen Poe Award; and So Far from God: A Journey to Central America, which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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Marnham is a good writer. He is able to relate the necessary facts in a historical context but also entertain. Some of his descriptions and the anecdotes are very entertaining. If you want an in-depth discussion of Diego Rivera as a person, not just as an artist, this is a great biography.
