Marcia Davenport

American author, Marcia Davenport, was born Marcia Glick on June 9, 1903, the daughter of opera singer Alma Gluck and Bernard Glick, and became the step-daughter of violinist Efrem Zimbalist when Gluck remarried.

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Alma Gluck - Efrem Zimbalist

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Davenport, naturally, had close ties to the classical music world and particularly to the heady opera world of Europe and America in the first half of the Twentieth Century. She is perhaps best known for her book "Mozart", the first published American biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. However, she later wrote "Too Strong For Fantasy", an intriguing autobiographical work describing the people, the music, the places and the modern political forces which shaped and coloured her life to 1967.

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Of particular interest is her telling of the events leading up to the tragic death of the Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk in 1948 and of her close relationship with Masaryk over many years.

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Marcia Davenport died on January 15, 1996, in California at the age of 92.

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January 15 - 1996 - California

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