Russell Martin | Author

About the Author

Russell Martin is the author of five works of nonfiction, including the highly acclaimed Out of Silence, and a novel. He lives in Colorado. (Bowker Author Biography)

Works by Russell Martin

Picasso's War (2002) 250 copies, 2 reviews

A Story That Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (1989) 61 copies, 1 review

The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair (2009) 60 copies, 7 reviews

Out of Silence: A Journey into Language (1994) 48 copies

Matters of Gray and White: A Neurologist, His Patients, and the Mysteries of the Brain (1987) 36 copies

New Writers of the Purple Sage (1992) 25 copies

Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West (1983) 21 copies, 2 reviews

The Desecration of Susan Browning (1981) 20 copies

The Color Orange: A Super Bowl Season With the Denver Broncos (1987) 17 copies

The Sorrow of Archaeology: A Novel (2005) 10 copies

Beautiful Islands (1988) 4 copies

Dødens drejebog (1985) 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1952-07-25
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Durango, Colorado, USA
Places of residence: Denver, Colorado, USA

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Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica and the… by Russell Martin

On May 11th, 1937, only two weeks after the insurgent Nazi Condor Legion bombed Guernica, Spain, Pablo Picasso commenced painting his famous masterpiece. While Picasso's War celebrates Picasso's work of art, "Guernica," it also paints a biography of Picasso, the passionately flawed man. Picasso who couldn't stay faithful to one woman; Picasso who saved everything ever given to him. As a painter, his art was as polarizing as cilantro. In 1981 the famous painting still had to be protected from terrorists with armed guards.
Coincidentally, Martin was standing in from of "Guernica" on September 11th, 2001.
The biggest surprise for me was learning of Herbert Southworth, an unsung hero of the Guernica saga. He had a clerical job at the Library of Congress and he was convinced he could get to the bottom of who actually bombed Guernica. Despite denials, he needed to convince the American public of Franco's threat to Democracy.… (more)

½

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SeriousGrace | 1 other review | Apr 20, 2022 |

Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West by Russell Martin

Basement office shelf to the left of the computer
middle shelf

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JRHFA | 1 other review | Nov 3, 2021 |

A Story that Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the… by Russell Martin

Easy enough to read, lots of interesting detail, but 1) not very challenging, 2) a glossary and/or diagrams were needed for those of us who have yet to build a dam, 3) it would have been more interesting to see the author take a stance and not ride the fence.

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untraveller | Oct 12, 2018 |

The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair by Russell Martin

This was a very interesting book to read. It was almost like reading an episode of CSI. This book goes back and forth between the boigraphy of Ludwing Van Beethoven and a group of scientists (including Che Guevara) that have bought a strand of hair of the german composer that has been passed though generations in musicians' families. the book is full of pictures of DNA tests, scientific research and photographs revisiting places where Beethoven had been.

½

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MonikaNicole | 6 other reviews | Feb 3, 2018 |

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