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A riveting, scandal-filled biography of the most famous nude model in America, Audrey Munson (1891-1996) whose beauty brought her extraordinary success and great tragedy.This is a book about a naked woman, once the most famous nude in America. It is a story of the extraordinary success her beauty brought her and the terrible, tragic price she paid for it. Many readers will recognize Audrey Munson, even without knowing her name. She was America's first supermodel. Many will already have seen her "most perfect form," for she stands with her celebrated dimples on full display in the fountain outside the Plaza Hotel in midtown Manhattan. She became the artist's model of choice in early twentieth-century New York at the time many of the city's finest buildings, bridges, and monuments were built.



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