Elizabeth Lunday is an experienced freelance journalist specializing in art, music, architecture, urban design, and literature.
A mixed bag? Sure. In writing, anything is possible.
If
you thought the artists were nutty, check out the musicians in Secret
Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told
You about the World's Musical Masters. Available now!
Read recent reviews from WOSU radio, The Toledo Free Press, The San Antonio Express News, The Oregon Mail-Tribune, and The Cleveland Scene.
Plus here's a review that covers both the Composers and the Artists book from Tulsa World.
Listen to Elizabeth talk about her books on PRI's Here and Now and on KWGS Radio's Studio Tulsa.
"Sticking Around in Fort Worth." A love letter to my home town, broadcast on the Dallas/Fort Worth NPR affiliate KERA.
Great Christian Art by Really Lousy Christians: You could separate the man from his art. You could forget that Caravaggio murdered a guy over a tennis match, or that Dali enjoyed his share of massive orgies. But here's why their works are more interesting when you don't. mental_floss, Sept/Oct 2009.
"Just a Cold" The gloom and doom in economic news over the past few months is seemingly enough to depress anyone, perhaps even enough to make you ill. A commentary for KERA.
Now
available: Secret
Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Great
Painters and Sculptors.Learn the seamy, steamy, and gritty history
behind your favorite masterpieces!
"History's Wildest Ballet Riot: The most infamous riot in the history of the performing arts began with the violins in Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” But more remarkable than the fistfight was the way the piece revolutionized classical music and ballet." mental_floss, July/August 2008.
"Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions about First Americans. Ancient stone artifacts reveal the day-to-day lives of Clovis people while offering tantalizing clues of an even earlier culture." ScientificAmerican.com, July 2008.
From art masterpieces to heart health, I've written about it. Check out my clips for an overview of my published articles.
After traveling from Berlin to Bangladesh, I settled in my Greenwich Village loft to enjoy the literary life. Oh, wait, that was someone else. For the real (and somewhat less exciting) story, read on.
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What People are Saying about Elizabeth: "We
know pop stars lives' are often steeped in sex, drugs and all
manner of debauchery. The same goes in spades for great composers.
In Secret Lives of Great Composers (Quirk), Elizabeth Lunday
has put together a readable compendium of the juicy bits. . .
If you love classical music but you've had it with the lofty tone,
this is the book for you." Cleveland Scene.
"Lunday writes without meanness. Light, tight and bright. As she says, these guys are still the sources of some of the world's most beautiful music. If there's a takeaway from the whole thing it's the all-too-human spectacle of the travails of the artistic spirit trying to get on in a workaday world." -- Oregon Mail Tribune, on Secret Lives of Great Composers. "Her writing is clean, direct, and chatty, with an effective mix of journalistic style and contemporary idiom. . . . Put this on your gift list for your strait-laced aunt, by all means, and get one for yourself. It'll do you both good." Craig Smith, Sante Fe New Mexican's Pasatiempo, on Secret Lives of Great Composers. "This is one of those books you buy to give to someone else and decide to keep for yourself." -- Krys Boyd, host of KERA's Think! talk show, on Secret Lives of Great Artists.
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