Martha Graham, from two perspectives -- her own and Agnes de Mille's

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 21, 1991| Author: Christine Temin, Globe Staff | Copyright information

BLOOD MEMORY, An Autobiography by Martha Graham.

Doubleday, illustrated, 279 pp., $25

MARTHA, The Life and Work of Martha Graham by

Agnes de Mille. Random House, illustrated, 509 pp., $30

Five months after her death, Martha Graham is still upstaging everybody else -- not with a new dance this time, but with her posthumously published reminiscence, "Blood Memory," which is virtually certain to be more widely read than either Agnes de Mille's gossipy new G...

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