Getting Inside Lincoln Kirstein

Remarkably, the co-founder of New York City Ballet has never had a biography. “It’s not easy to draw a portrait of someone who never sat still. It’s especially hard when that person’s genius consisted of laying the groundwork for other geniuses. Acclaimed historian and biographer Martin Duberman succeeds in ‘The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein,’ the first biography of the impresario, because he paints Kirstein’s life as the restless man lived it – great aesthetic ambitions alternating with cruises to waterfront dives.