Product Description: The great man behind the joyous music emerges in this personal interview with Richard Meryman. Armstrong muses, "I was very much contented just to stay in New Orleans and playing with the old timers. I wonder if I would have enjoyed that better than all this big mucky-muck traveling all over the world, being high on the horse, all grandioso...read more

Featuring scores of full-color and black-and-white reproductions, a highly praised, revelatory account of the reclusive painter's life and art illuminates Wyeth's character, creative process, and inner feelings. Reprint. NYT.

Examines the life and work of the popular American artist, and describes the major themes in his paintings

Records the emotional, psychological, and physiological details of a woman's addiction to alcohol, the deceit and humiliation involved, her struggle with shame and anger, and her gradual, difficult recovery

Meryman shares the heart-wringing story of his wife Hope's heroic struggle against cancer and the tender love and joy that broke through the painful family ordeal of coping with suffering and death