****WAIT! Mayakovsky had a DAUGHTER??***

Could this be true? If anyone knows the details PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL? Has anyone read her book: [em]Mayakovsky in Manhattan:A Love Story[/em]


[em]Mayakovsky seems not to have sent letters from America. He did, however, send a number of telegrams to Lili Brik, protesting loneliness and his love. There have been personal reminiscences relating to his American visit, and newspaper reports. One account speaks of a rather wild party, organised by the communist journal New Masses, with vigorous dancing and (presumably illegal) gin swilling, during which Mayakovsky admitted: ‘Yes, I am a bohemian. That is my great problem: to burn out all my bohemian past, to rise to the heights of the Revolution’. There were, however, some stages of his American sojourn unaccounted for. Mayakovsky’s ‘Bohemianism’ stretched in fact to a two-month love affair, from which an ‘American daughter’ was the result. Although rumours and coy references had been rife for two thirds of a century, the seriousness of this relationship, and the identities of mother and daughter, remained almost a total secret until the early 1990s. In 1993, marking the Mayakovsky centennial, the daughter herself (who even remembers her father from meeting him in Nice, at the age of two!) brought out a book. Patricia J. Thompson [aka Yelena Mayakovskaya]’s volume Mayakovsky in Manhattan: A Love Story, with Excerpts from the Memoir of Elly Jones [her mother] was published in a limited edition (by West End Productions, New York).[/em]

-Mayakovsky in America, Meeting chaired by Peter Rex Valentine