Marie Brenner

Author of Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

14+ Works 404 Members 15 Reviews

About the Author

Marie Brenner is the author of four books, Her numerous articles have been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, where she is writer-at-large

Image credit: Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008

Works by Marie Brenner

Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women (2000) 106 copies

House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville (1988) 50 copies

Richard Jewell [2019 Film] (2019) — Based Upon her article — 43 copies

The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines (2022) 33 copies

Richard Jewell: And Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades (2018) 29 copies

A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades (2018) 14 copies

Going Hollywood: An insider's look at power and pretense in the movie business (1978) 7 copies

Intimate Distance (1983) 2 copies

Tell Me Everything (1977) 1 copy

The Insider (2004) 1 copy

“Marie Colvin’s Private War” 1 copy

"After the Gold Rush" 1 copy

My Brother and Me, Lost and Found 1 copy

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Associated Works

Eloise: The Absolutely Essential 50th Anniversary Edition (1955) — Scrapbook — 495 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1949-12-15
Gender: female
Places of residence: San Antonio, Texas, USA
New York, New York, USA

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The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to… by Marie Brenner

Brenner looks at the beginning of the COVID pandemic through the eyes of doctors, nurses, administrators and more at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospitals in New York City. I live almost across the street from New York-Presbyterian and so I had a special interest in this well-researched, well-written, totally immersive book. Brenner puts the reader right in the midst of the hospital where decisions are being made quickly without much information available about COVID. What impresses me most is the dedication of doctors, nurses, aides and maintenance staff who showed compassion and courage in dealing with so many people who were dying around them. It reminded me of Sheri Fink's Five Days At Memorial, about a hospital caught up in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The Desperate Hours is destined to go down as one of the most important books written about COVID. It will be one of my Most Compelling Books of 2022.… (more)

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bookchickdi | Aug 8, 2022 |

Apples & oranges : my brother and me, lost and found by Marie Brenner

I could have gave this another star but I was bored reading some parts of the book. The story about his grandfather's and aunts should have written on the first part of the book because it looks like it was jumbled entirely to the flow of the story. The author also should have included some excerpts from his brother's diaries so the readers could have a glimpse of what his brother really like.

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fugou | 9 other reviews | Aug 14, 2017 |

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner

i really like her writing style. i also learned a lot about apples.

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mahallett | 9 other reviews | Jul 23, 2017 |