Author Event: Jamie Bernstein, "Famous Father Girl"
Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore welcome Jamie Bernstein, author of Famous Father Girl: a Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein.
In this intimate and evocative memoir, the oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father, which was published the centennial year of his birth.
The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television star, humanitarian, friend of the powerful and influential, and the life of every party, Leonard Bernstein was an enormous celebrity during one of the headiest periods of American cultural life, as well as the most protean musician in twentieth century America.