# Shoot the Widow

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- Book: [Shoot the Widow](https://www.bookquiver.com/meryle-secrest/shoot-the-widow) ([Shoot the Widow.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/meryle-secrest/shoot-the-widow.md))
- Authors: [Meryle Secrest](https://www.bookquiver.com/meryle-secrest)
- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0749-786-4
- Published: 2011-06-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.” In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The...