Madonna

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In this riveting, definitive biography, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel details the meteoric rise and enduring influence of perhaps the greatest pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.
 Mary Gabriel is the author of Ninth Street Women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, which won the 2022 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction and the 2019 Library of Virginia and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts's Mary Lynn Kotz Award. Gabriel's previous book, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone. She worked in Washington and London as a Reuters editor for nearly two decades and lives in Ireland.Praise for Ninth Street Women:

"A gorgeous and unsettling narrative…Ninth Street Women is supremely gratifying, generous, and lush but also tough and precise — in other words, as complicated and capacious as the lives it depicts…It's as if once Gabriel got started, the canvas before her opened up new vistas. We should be grateful she yielded to its possibilities."—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times“Ninth Street Women is like a great, sprawling Russian novel, filled with memorable characters and sharply etched scenes. It’s no mean feat to breathe life into five very different and very brave women, none of whom gave a whit about conventional mores. But Ms. Gabriel fleshes out her portraits with intimate details, astute analyses of the art and good old-fashioned storytelling.”—Ann Landi, Wall Street Journal“Ninth Street Women is a must read…Gabriel seamlessly weaves the intimate and the public, the lives and the art, making us feel we were there…It is a story that is a part of the American story, told here in vivid, meaningful detail, an absolutely pivotal text.”—Margaret Randall, Women's Review of Books“Gabriel’s fascinating group portrait shimmers with vivid personal detail…She traces their interwoven paths from studio to Cedar Bar to the Eight Street loft known as the Club…Over time, Willem de Kooning outshone Elaine; Jackson Pollock eclipsed Krasner. Key contributions were erased…Gabriel makes sure these major artists who have been written out of history are not forgotten.”—Jane Ciabattari, BBC.com“Masterful. Mixing critical insight with juicy storytelling, Mary Gabriel brings five brilliant female painters to the fore of the art revolution that cut a wide swath in postwar America.”—Patricia Albers, author of Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter

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