Life at the Top

<p>"Life at the Top: Inside New York's Grand Hotels" a celebrity biography of some of New York's grandest and most romantic hotels contains dozens of original stories about famous literary theater and movie personalities. Author Ward Morehouse III a columnist for AM New York former columnist for the New York Sun and the New York Post and a staff correspondent for 10 years for the Christian Science Monitor briefly chronicles the lives of many of the 20th Century's literary and artistic giants who lived at the Plaza Waldorf-Astoria Algonquin St. Regis Carlyle Chelsea and many other hotels. Morehouse paints a unique portrait of their glamorous exciting touching and sometimes tragic lives in the golden era of New York hotels and theater bringing the two worlds together in a work that reads like great fiction. He reconfirms his status as a superb chronicler of Americana as well as one of our most engaging storytellers.</p>