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The Life of William Faulkner
By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner (""A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados""- Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, …
The Life of William Faulkner
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, William Faulkner was a southerner who became widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of all time. Despite being such …
The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the …
Rebecca West and the God That Failed
After completing his biography of Rebecca West in 1995, Carl Rollyson felt bereft. As his wife said, "e;Rebecca was such good company."e; He had already embarked on another …
Real American Character
Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real …
Understanding Susan Sontag
With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for …
Literary Legacy of Rebecca West
The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West is the first book to explore the entire corpus of her extraordinary seventy-one year writing career. The general introductory studies of West …
Understanding Susan Sontag
A comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published diariesWith the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her …
Marilyn Monroe
This is a brief biography that explores Marilyn Monroe's life. This book is a part of Westview?s `Lives of American Women? series, edited by Carol Berkin. Each title in the series …
Essays in Biography
Psychological Novelists
The Search for Sam Goldwyn
Sam Goldwyn's career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years …