Getty Images Publisher John McWhinnie attends an in-store reading and discussion at the Strand Book Store on July 16,2008 in New York City. McWhinnie died on Friday.
At a friend’s wedding in 2005, John McWhinnie once distilled some love letters that Orson Welles had written to Rita Hayworth in the 1940s and read the short passage to the assembled guests.
McWhinnie, a New York dealer, scholar and collector of rare 20th century books, letters and ephemera, died on Friday.
“He figured...
At a friend’s wedding in 2005, John McWhinnie once distilled some love letters that Orson Welles had written to Rita Hayworth in the 1940s and read the short passage to the assembled guests.
McWhinnie, a New York dealer, scholar and collector of rare 20th century books, letters and ephemera, died on Friday.
“He figured...
- 1/9/2012
- by Robert P. Walzer
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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