Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. The Diary Of Frida Kahlo by Carlos Fuentes is Frida Kahlo’s incredible illustrated journal that documents the last ten years of her tumultuous life.
What Jennifer Clement Says: I wrote Widow Basquiat in Mexico City in 1997 and, in so many ways, it’s a work of innocence as Basquiat did not have the fame he has today. So many editors (19 in total) who turned down the book even asked who Basquiat was! While I wrote the memoir, I was also reading Kahlo’s diary, which had been published two years earlier. I was interested in reading about the way she watched Diego Rivera paint and his response to her painting. Kahlo suffered, but she always had a great sense of humour.
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