Madonna’s Biographer on How New York City Gave the Material Girl Her Material
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Madonna’s life — and the relentless ambition that fueled her rise — could be the stuff of a great book.
And now Pulitzer finalist Mary Gabriel has taken on the challenge. Gabriel, who wrote about the women who helped invent modern art in “Ninth Street Women,” turns her attention to the Material Girl in “Madonna: A Rebel Life,” out Oct.
10. The book follows Madonna’s journey from suburban Detroit to 1970s New York City, where she began cultivating her star power.
Ahead of Madonna’s next world tour (set to launch Oct. 14 in London), Gabriel talks about her subject’s New York days. Madonna has always described her move to New York as courageous, but your book really shows why that’s true. She went to New York in 1977 for a summer course, and that was the year of the “Son of Sam” murders and the blackout.
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