Gwyneth Paltrow played the title role in the 1996 film "Emma," based on Jane Austen’s novel.

After 30 years in the spotlight, Gwyneth Paltrow has lived through enough eras to rival Taylor Swift: From ingenue to It girl to fashion plate to Oscar winner, to entrepreneur to professional lightning rod and purveyor of junk science. These days the phrase “love her or hate her” is affixed to Paltrow like luxury cashmere, and it was this polarity that celebrity biographer Amy Odell set out to explore.

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In Gwyneth: A Biography , Odell maps out her subject’s formative years as the privileged daughter of Hollywood royalty and an occasional New York society mean girl, and connects those early days to Paltrow’s more recent iterations as the CEO of Goop. The book, which

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