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Taking Woodstock

A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life

Taking Woodstock( )
Author: Tiber, Elliot
As told to: Monte, Tom
ISBN:978-0-7570-0293-9
Publication Date:Jun 2007
Publisher:Square One Publishers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

Taking Woodstock is the funny, touching, and true story of Elliot Tiber, the man who was instrumental in arranging the site for the original Woodstock Concert. Elliot, whose parents owned an upstate New York motel, was working in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969. He socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and yet somehow managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then on Friday, June 28, Elliot...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Rock
Biography & Autobiography / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.25 x 9.25 x 0.75 Inches
Book Weight:1 Pounds
Author Biography
Tiber, Elliot (Author)
Elliot Tiber was born Eliyahu Teichberg in Brooklyn, New York on April 15, 1935. He received a bachelor's degree from Hunter College in 1956 and a master of fine arts degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He was an interior designer, a filmmaker, playwright, college professor, LGBTQ activist, and an author. In 1969, he helped find a location for the Woodstock Festival.

His memoir Taking Woodstock was published in 2007 and was adapted into a film in 2009. His other memoirs include Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland and Interior Decorating and After Woodstock. He collaborated with Belgian filmmaker Andre Ernotte on the 1975 novel and 1976 screenplay for Rue Haute, which opened in the United States as High Street. He died from a stroke on August 3, 2016 at the age of 81.

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