Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir

One of America's most brilliant composers and diarists recreates the vibrancy, intrigues, and extraordinary accomplishments of the art world, the gay world, and the music world in New York and Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, offering vivid portraits of Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Paul and Jane Bowles, Truman Capote, and other leading figures of his generation. Photos.

• Author
• Ned Rorem

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 608

• Publisher
• Touchstone Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780684804408

• Genres
• music, memoir, lgbt

• Release date
• 1995