A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love - Hardcover

Naifeh, Steven; Smith, Gregory White

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525939733 ISBN 13: 9780525939733

Publisher: E P Dutton, 1995

Synopsis

An intimate portrait of the slow disintegration of a family documents the ordeal of everyone close to rapist and murderer Richard Daniel Starrett--the epitome of the all-American boy--who confessed to a two-year rampage attacking young women. 50,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Naifeh is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Mr. Naifeh, who has written for art periodicals and has lectured at numerous museums including the National Gallery of Art, studied art history at Princeton and did his graduate work at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. He has written many books on art and other subjects, including four New York Times bestsellers. His biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It also inspired the Academy Award-winning 2000 film Pollock, starring Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden, as well as John Updike's novel, Seek My Face.

Gregory White Smith is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Smith has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, USA Today, and People, and have appeared on 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, and the Today show.

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0525939733
• ISBN 13: 9780525939733
• Binding: Hardcover