Her interest in Miller began when she met the photographer while working on her first book, Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy (FSG, 1996). The Chicago Tribune gave it a cover review People called it "a great read" The Telegraph (U.K.) judged, "Lee Miller was an astounding woman, brought memorably to life by this astounding book." Burke appears in the BBC's docudrama Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing. Postal Service's launch of their Piaf stamp.īurke's Lee Miller: A Life, published by Knopf and Bloomsbury in 2005 and Autrement in 2007, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award. She recently took part in the BBC 4 special on Piaf's iconic song "Non, je ne regrette rien" and in the U.S. Burke has performed with singers of Piaf's repertoire in Paris (Caveau des Légendes), London (The Vortex), Los Angeles (Catalina Jazz Club), and San Francisco (City Lights/Litquake). highly effective" (New York Review of Books) "masterful storytelling" (Library Journal) and listed among the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sunday Times (U.K.). The definitive life of the chanteuse, No Regrets has been called "an eloquent embrace of the famed French singer-songwriter" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) "sympathetic. Her latest book, No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf, was published in 2011 by Knopf (U.S.) and Bloomsbury (U.K.) Since then it has appeared in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Czech and Russian. A practitioner of Zen Buddhism, she took the precepts with Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2010. She is a member of PEN and the Authors Guild. in English Literature from Columbia University. She graduated from Swarthmore College and earned a Ph.D. Carolyn Burke was born in Sydney, spent many years in Paris, and now lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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