In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

Biography
Elsie Russell's bohemian upbringing with artist parents in Europe and the
states provided much of the material for this novel. Her mother Andrée, a
Beaux Arts Graduate, frequented the postwar Paris avant-garde art scene with
her photographer brother Robert Déscharnes where she met Alfred Russell,
then a rising star abstract expressionist painter, soon married him and had
Elsie. Robert Déscharnes went on to become famous for his art books and
life-long friendship and collaboration with Salvador Dalí. From the start she
was dragged around with the rolled up canvases until deposited for high
school in Rome at St. Stephen's, a prep school warehouse for jet set kids
where she got a great education with her disaffected aristocratic classmates.
Summers were often in Cadaquès, Spain, with her cousins and Dalí and his
colorful entourage. Later, while struggling in New York as a painter, she met
her spouse Jeff Harrington, Juilliard trained composer and software architect,
exposing her to yet another world of dazzling misfits. For more information
about Elsie Russell please visit her website: http://elsierussell.com
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