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Relatives. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (half-brother) Marcia Davenport ( née Glick; June 9, 1903 – January 16, 1996) was an American writer and music critic. She is best known for her 1932 biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the first American published biography of Mozart.
Marcia Davenport has 47 books on Goodreads with 4441 ratings. Marcia Davenport’s most popular book is Mozart.
The Valley of Decision is an historical novel by the American writer Marcia Davenport (1903–1996). It was a national bestseller in the 1940s and adapted into a film, The Valley of Decision, in 1945.
Feb 23, 2023 · Seventy-five years ago this week, Marcia Davenport’s “East Side, West Side” — “a love letter to Manhattan,” according to the Book Review — topped the fiction best-seller list.
Jan 16, 1996 · About Marcia Davenport: American author and music critic. She was born Marcia Glick, daughter of Bernard Glick and opera singer Alma Gluck, later stepdau...
Dec 31, 2015 · “Marcia Davenport’s The Valley of Decision stands foremost in my memory of the books about Pittsburgh that I liked best of all.” —David McCullough, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time National Book Award winner “Entwined with family histories, Marcia Davenport has re-created the industrialization of Pittsburgh from ...
Jan 20, 1996 · Marcia Davenport, a biographer of Mozart and best-selling novelist, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Monterey, Calif. She was 92 and lived in Pebble Beach, Calif.
