Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World (57 page)

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Authors: Hugh Brewster

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

H
UGH
B
REWSTER
was born in London, England, but spent his teen years in Guelph, Ontario, in a house near Summerhill, the girlhood home of
Titanic
passenger Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon. As a young editor at Madison Press Books in Toronto he met Dr. Robert Ballard in 1984 and worked with him to produce the international bestseller
The Discovery of the Titanic
. Nineteen other nautical books followed, including
The Discovery of the Bismarck
,
Lost Liners
,
Polar the Titanic Bear
, and
Last Dinner on the Titanic
. Brewster also worked with Don Lynch and Ken Marschall on
Titanic: An Illustrated History
, a book that proved useful to James Cameron’s epic movie, and he later compiled the tie-in to Cameron’s 3D film
Ghosts of the Abyss
. Brewster is also the author of
Inside the Titanic
,
882½ Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic
, and
Deadly Voyage
and has written twelve award-winning books for young readers.
The Other Mozart
was hailed as “history at its best” by the
San Francisco Chronicle
, and
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
was chosen as one of the best of 2007 by the
Washington Post
and nominated for several of Canada’s top literary awards. Hugh Brewster lives in an Edwardian neighborhood in Toronto just around the corner from the house that was the last address of Major Arthur Peuchen.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Prologue | A RARE GATHERING

1 | AT THE CHERBOURG QUAY

2 | A NOMADIC HIATUS

3 | THE PALM ROOM

4 | “ QUEER LOT OF PEOPLE ”

5 | QUEENSTOWN

6 | FELLOW TRAVELERS

7 | PRIVATE LIVES

8 | SHIPBOARD COTERIES

9 | DESIGNING WOMAN

10 | A CALM SUNDAY

11 | THE LAST EVENING

12 | COLLISION AND AFTER

13 | TO THE LIFEBOATS

14 | THE FINAL MINUTES

15 | VOICES IN THE NIGHT

16 | THE SHIP OF SORROW

17 | TWO CONTINENTS STIRRED

Postscript | TITANIC AFTERLIVES
NOTES
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHOTOGRAPH AND ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
About the Author

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