Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Buffalo, NY
Chapter 2. New York, NY
Chapter 3. “Get Happy”
Chapter 4. The Cotton Club
Chapter 5. Anya
Chapter 6. “Stormy Weather”
Chapter 7. On Broadway with Ira and Yip
Chapter 8. “Last Night When We Were Young”
Chapter 9. Marriage
Chapter 10. Death of Gershwin
Chapter 11. Hooray for What!
Chapter 12. The Wizard of Oz
Chapter 13. An Itinerant Songwriter
Chapter 14. Writing with Johnny Mercer
Chapter 15. “One for My Baby”
Chapter 16. “Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive”
Chapter 17. St. Louis Woman
Chapter 18. Descent into Misery
Chapter 19. “She Was Sweet and Adorable and Then She Went Mad”
Chapter 20. A Star Is Born
Chapter 21. House of Flowers
Chapter 22. In Search of Fame
Chapter 23. An Opera
Chapter 24. Two Debacles
Chapter 25. The 1960s
Chapter 26. Waiting
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index