In 1990 Kurth published American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson, which won the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award as the best book about journalism of that year. Thompson’s tireless opposition to fascism “at home and abroad” continues to inspire readers around the world.
Kurth’s involvement with the drama of the last Romanovs led to the 1995 publication of Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra, a coffee-table picture book combining rare images of the imperial family, long hidden in Soviet archives, with contemporary photographs of Romanov haunts and palaces in Russia. The New York Times found the book “physically dazzling... and compellingly written,” offering “as fine a portrait of Nicholas and Alexandra’s complex characters as any book since Robert Massie’s biography” of that name.
Kurth’s 2001 Isadora: A Sensational Life is the fullest biography to date of Isadora Duncan, “Mother of Modern Dance.” He has written for Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler, Forbes FYI, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Observer, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Salon.com, and was “Crank Call” columnist for Vermont’s Seven Days. Kurth lives in Vermont. You can follow him on Substack.
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