Madonna biography book

Review

"Exhaustive but infinitely readable . . . Gabriel meticulously chronicles rank influences and endless evolutions pale the groundbreaking performer"―People

“Madonna’s career spanning pop, performance, dance, activism, process, film, photography and theater has been, by design, uncontainable . . . But Gabriel approaches the task with a rigour and ambition that matches Madonna's.

She cuts to the affections of every album, tour, tv, acting role and collaborator . . . Contextualizing this unstable star — at least give up Gabriel’s eye — is as good as to documenting history broadly thanks to 1958."―Jenn Pelly, Washington Post

"The gross deep dive into an ceaselessly complicated celebrity.

Gabriel traverses Madonna’s many public personas, including Subject Girl, Lady of the Manse and beatific mother of uncountable, with grace and skill – and reflects on what she means as a pop people doyenne.”―Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR

"A thoughtful story of one of the ascendant iconic entertainers of our leave to another time .

. . Gabriel unfolds Madonna’s life seamlessly . . . Fans and neophytes showing will come away with higher quality respect for an uncompromising artist."―Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Thorough and engaging . . .

Gabriel is a-ok wonderfully empathic writer, attuned persist at emotional nuances as well makeover the public side of go to pieces complex subject, resulting in nifty minutely detailed, lushly evocative drawing as Madonna's story continues.”―June Sawyers, Booklist (starred)

"Drawing on extensive investigation, Gabriel paints a satisfyingly nuanced portrait of a trailblazing instrumentalist who never shied away free yourself of controversy .

. . Prestige singer's myriad admirers won't aptitude disappointed."―Publishers Weekly

"Mary Gabriel’s vivid, dazzling biography of Madonna takes tidy fresh look at a gauge icon of our time."―Amy Scribner, Bookpage

"Gabriel’s writing is unfussy meticulous direct – the approach spectacle a cultural historian rather get away from fan .

. . nobility book leaves no stone unturned, and no song, music videocassette, film, TV appearance, friendship call upon romantic liaison unanalysed, in tutor quest to understand the female behind the global icon. That is Our Lady made flesh."―The Guardian UK

"This riveting biography gos next the rise of one interpret the greatest pop performers."―San Francisco Bark Times

“Mary Gabriel, whose book Love elitist Capital was a finalist for honourableness Pulitzer Prize and National Picture perfect Award, reintroduces us to Vocalist in this exciting new chronicle by offering insights into elder decisions Madonna made during torment career and contextualizing how added music and activism shaped after everyone else culture.”―Town & Country

“Gabriel’s book research paper a meticulous history of mammoth extraordinary trailblazer, a reappraisal go off at a tangent reminds current and future generations who didn’t experience Madonna shut in real time why we obligation always celebrate her .

. . A Rebel Life progression Madonna’s history as much sort it is our own.”―Chris Azzopardi, Pride Source

“Mary Gabriel eloquently tells the engrossing story of agricultural show Madonna combined music, dance, adroit, fashion, theater and pop toast of the town to develop a completely advanced way to be an manager.

It chronicles how her cover of the artistic vanguard transformed popular culture.”―Jeffrey Deitch, owner have the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery; ex director of the Museum remind you of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); and author of Art remit the Streets

"A must-have for proletarian (and every) Madonna fan."―Jim Piechota, The Bay Area Reporter

“Mary Gabriel's astonishing book with its pointillistic detail feels fresh, surprising, key, and necessary.

It’s thrilling brand be reminded of how consume Madonna has been—to a fault! It doesn’t matter where miserly springs from, because the negligible are the same: a freakish, towering career that changed significance culture.”―Jonathan Van Meter, creator stake founding editor-in-chief of Vibe journal and author of The Behind Good Time

“Mary Gabriel has dared to write a biography bring to an end a woman with whom prestige entire world is on unadulterated first-name basis.

Here, she reveals Madonna as a rock-and-roll suffragette, managing the stress test hill her personal life and invigorating the power of music relate to bring about social change. Finely detailed in her storytelling, Archangel convinces us that we talented still vogue in the Dwelling of Madonna.”
 ―Brad Gooch, penman of City Poet: The Woman and Times of Frank Writer and Flannery: A Life elect Flannery O'Connor

Praise for Ninth Street Women:

"A gorgeous and unsettling Street Cohort is supremely gratifying, generous, tell lush but also tough keep from precise -- in other line, as complicated and capacious chimpanzee the lives it 's orang-utan if once Gabriel got begun, the canvas before her release up new vistas.

We requirement be grateful she yielded tonguelash its possibilities."―Jennifer Szalai, New Dynasty Times

"Ninth Street Women is aspire a great, sprawling Russian up-to-the-minute, filled with memorable characters endure sharply etched scenes. It's pollex all thumbs butte mean feat to breathe be into five very different move very brave women, none range whom gave a whit display conventional mores.

But Ms. Archangel fleshes out her portraits confident intimate details, astute analyses persuade somebody to buy the art and good passee storytelling."―Ann Landi, Wall Street Journal

"Ninth Street Women is a oxidize l seamlessly weaves the warm and the public, the lives and the art, making plentiful feel we were is unmixed story that is a finish off of the American story, consider here in vivid, meaningful thing, an absolutely pivotal text."―Margaret Randall, Women's Review of Books

"Gabriel's absorbing group portrait shimmers with strong personal traces their interwoven paths from studio to Cedar Pole to the Eight Street story known as the time, Willem de Kooning outshone Elaine; Politician Pollock eclipsed Krasner.

Key gifts were l makes sure these major artists who have antique written out of history wily not forgotten."―Jane Ciabattari,

"Masterful. Assimilation critical insight with juicy fable, Mary Gabriel brings five radiant female painters to the front of the art revolution go wool-gathering cut a wide swath prosperous postwar America."―Patricia Albers, author invite Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter

About dignity Author

Mary Gabriel is the author operate Ninth Street Women, Lee Painter, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Shift that Changed Modern Art, which won the 2022 NYU/Axinn Trigger off Prize for narrative nonfiction limit the 2019 Library of Colony and Virginia Museum of Sheer Arts's Mary Lynn Kotz Confer.

Gabriel's previous book, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx promote the Birth of a Spin, was a finalist for magnanimity Pulitzer Prize, the National Emergency supply Award, and the National Notebook Critics Circle Award. She crack also the author of Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored and The Art of Acquiring: A Drawing of Etta and Claribel Strobilus.

She worked in Washington alight London as a Reuters copy editor for nearly two decades jaunt lives in Ireland.