The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother Barbara Chase-riboud has led a remarkable life.
But what emerges most of all is the powerful story of a unique and remarkable relationship between a talented, ambitious, and courageous daughter and her adored mother..
By turns brilliant and naïve, passionate and tender, poignant and funny, these letters show Chase-riboud in the process of becoming who she is and who she might become.
In candid detail, Chase-riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia.
I Always Knew is an intimate and vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud\'s life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991.
And along the way, she met many luminaries--from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder, James Baldwin, and Mao Zedong to Toni Morrison, Pierre Cardin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Josephine Baker.
Later, she also became an award-winning poet and bestselling novelist.
She became a renowned artist whose work is now in museum collections around the world.
After graduating from Yale\'s School of Design and Architecture, she moved to Europe and spent decades traveling the world and living at the center of artistic, literary, and political circles.
The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother Barbara Chase-riboud has led a remarkable life
