One Life for Two: The Autobiography of Irving and Marilyn Lavin

"What do you do when your husband gets the best job in the country in a field that he stole from you? Well, that’s what happened to me, and that’s what this book is about." So begins Marilyn Aronberg Lavin’s spirited memoir of her seventy—year relationship with Irving Lavin, one of America's most eminent art historians. Her narrative traces their parallel careers as they both achieve remarkable success—he as a distinguished professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; she as an...