She owned paintings by Edgar Degas and Renoir, a Stradivarius violin, and a vast collection of antique dolls. Clark House at 952 Fifth Avenue, the largest house in New York City. Clark was a controversial senator, builder of railroads, namesake for Clark County, Nevada, and the founder of Las Vegas.

Overview Įmpty Mansions chronicles the life of Huguette Clark, the daughter of the wealthy copper industrialist William A. The book was optioned earlier by film and television director Ryan Murphy. The film rights to Empty Mansions were optioned by Fremantle, which is developing a TV series with HBO, director Joe Wright, and screenwriter Ido Fluk. Empty Mansions also appeared on bestseller lists from Publishers Weekly, IndieBound independent booksellers, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Maclean's magazine in Canada. It was on the New York Times bestseller list for 13 weeks and the Los Angeles Times bestseller list for 37 weeks.

The book chronicles the Clark family's involvement across much of American history, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps during the Montana gold rush.Įmpty Mansions debuted at number one on The New York Times bestseller list for e-books and number four for hardcover books for the week ending September 14, 2013. Clark (1839–1925), one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time. | Official WebsiteĮmpty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune is a non-fiction book by the American authors Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., about the heiress Huguette Clark (1906–2011), daughter of the copper baron and United States Senator William A. Print ( Hardback and Paperback), e-book, audio-CDĮmpty Mansions, by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

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