Cherie burns biography

Burns has been a feature journalist since 1975.
Cherie Burns is author of the biography, Searching for Beauty—The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress Who Taught the World About Style published.
Cherie Burns is author of Diving for Starfish--The Jeweler, The Actress, The Heiress and One of the World's Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry.

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Cherie Burns

DIVING FOR STARFISH: The Jeweler, the Actress, the Heiress and One of the World’s Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelery

“Part history, part investigative journalism, part personal quest, DIVING FOR STARFISH is filled with drama and intrigue, and peopled by a cast of characters worthy of THE MALTESE FALCON.”
—Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal

The House of Boivin, purveyor of sumptuous jewelry to the wealthy of the world, created five ruby and amethyst starfish brooches in the uncertain years preceding the Second World War. The pieces have moved beneath the surface of public awareness ever since, bought and sold in the utmost secrecy, spoken of but seldom seen. DIVING FOR STARFISH is journalist Cherie Burns’s intimate chronicle of these five legendary artifacts, the secrets they have held in the 75 years they have adorned the high societies of New York and Paris, and the larger-than-life personalities who feature in their tale: among them a brilliant French jewelry designer, an American Standard Oil heiress and fashion icon, and an Academy-Award-winning

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Cherie Burns is the author of Searching for Beauty–The Life of Millicent Rogers, the first comprehensive biography of the Standard Oil heiress and fashion icon.

Raised in the Gilded Age of New York society, Rogers came of age as a debutante and flapper. She eloped with an impoverished European nobleman and lived with three husbands in high-living pre-war Europe. During WWII she returned to the U.S to pitch into the war effort, and at war’s end she followed American glamour–and Clark Gable–to Hollywood. Her last reincarnation was in Taos, New Mexico where she fell in love with the Pueblo Indians and re-imagined southwestern style for her followers in the New York fashion world.

Rogers was considered the first American woman with real style to merit the admiration of Parisian couturiers and fashion arbiters. Beautiful, rich, spirited and always impeccably dressed, Rogers re-invented herself with every decade of the first half of the Twentieth Century.

In addition to Searching for Beauty, Cherie Burns is author of The Great Hurricane: 1938, o

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Burns, Cherie

PERSONAL: Married Richard L. Duncan (a journalist).

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Atlantic Monthly Press, 841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.

CAREER: Writer.

WRITINGS:

Stepmotherhood: How to Survive without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked, Times Books (New York, NY), 1985, revised edition, Three Rivers Press (New York, NY), 2001.

The Great Hurricane: 1938, Atlantic Monthly Press (New York, NY), 2005.

Also contributor to the New York Times, People, Glamour, Sports Illustrated, US, New York, Self, and Working Woman.

SIDELIGHTS: Cherie Burns is a nonfiction author who was one of the first of her generation to write about the difficulties of marrying into a modern family with children. In Stepmotherhood: How to Survive without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked Burns suggests ways to successfully cope and care for stepchildren. In a review of the revised edition of Stepmotherhood for the Stepfamily Association of America Web site, Patricia Schiff Estess commented that "Burns offers enough insights, observation, and examples of