This guide gives students the tools to trace their ancestry, teaching them to collect data, obtain and evaluate documents and sources, use the latest electronic tools for researching, and conduct accounts of historical events in family life.
A biography of the American writer discusses Mailer's major works, from "The Naked and the Dead" to "Harlot's Ghost," and reveals the man behind this often misunderstood genius.
An encyclopedic guide to the novelist includes entries on Melville's works and characters, influential events and social issues, friends and family, and journeys.
In her lifetime, Rebecca West--novelist, critic, biographer, travel writer, and journalist--was feted for her achievements and feared for her ruthless wit. She regained the reading public's attention in the wake of the conflict in Bosnia, because her masterpiece, "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon," is still considered the best book ever written about ...
The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction.E One can ask for no better guidebook. --M. Thomas Inge
This biography of Martha Gellhorn, one of Hemingway's wives, illuminates the skill she possessed as a writer in her own right, reporting on world events few women had the chutzpah to cover in the mid-20th century, including the Spanish Civil War and the Nuremburg trials.
Written with full co-operation of Michael Foot, the former Labour party leader, to whom she was married for 50 years prior to her death in 1999, this biography of the film-maker, writer and feminist Jill Craigie is an intimate portrait of an influential and charismatic woman. Born in 1914, Craigie had a lonely and unhappy childhood, mostly spent ...
Carl Rollyson's Biography: A User's Guide is an informative and entertaining text for those interested in biography. No aspect of the genre, from A to Z, goes uncovered: issues around authorized and unauthorized biography, censorship, libel, fair use, public domain (referred to as PD by publishers and editors), and a great deal more-including ...
One of English literature's most famous families, the Brontes, are known as much for their difficult lives as for the unforgettable works they produced: Charlotte's "Jane Eyre", Emily's "Wuthering Heights", and Anne's "Agnes Grey", among others. This is a reference to the world of the Bronte family: sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne; their brother ...
This guide to Scandinavian American Genealogy provides middle school and high school students of Scandinavian descent with historical background information, instructions and resource lists for compiling their family histories.
In American popular culture Marilyn Monroe has evolved in stature from Hollywood sex symbol to tragic legend. Most books about Monroe stress the sensational events that surrounded her-this book is the
"An excellent resource for scholars of Melville and for undergraduates and graduate students" - "Choice". "Critical Companion to Herman Melville" examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity. Herman Melville has since become known as one of America's greatest novelists, short story writers, and poets. The author ...
Carl Rollyson's lively and anecdotal investigation of writing about the lives others examines his own practices as well as those of biographers from Samuel Johnson to Richard Ellmann and many others. By its very nature, Mr. Rollyson argues, biography is controversial-it invites the burglar, and justifiably so, especially in the case of literary ...
Martha Gellhorn died in 1998, just shy of her 90"th" birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. As a reporter, she covered wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her travel books became classics. She took three husbands, including Ernest Hemingway, as well as many lovers, and her innumerable friends included ...
Originally selected by Blotner and Litz for their Faulkner series, this pathbreaking monograph contains a comprehensive and provocative discussion of Faulkner's historical vision. Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the ...
This series contains indepth analytical reference guides to 463 major writers of long fiction. The series has an accessible style and format that allow readers to zero in on precise characteristics of an author's work. Essays are arranged alphabetically by author, and begin with dates and places of birth and death. The essays also include a list ...
This series contains indepth analytical reference guides to 463 major writers of long fiction. The series has an accessible style and format that allow readers to zero in on precise characteristics of an author's work. Essays are arranged alphabetically by author, and begin with dates and places of birth and death. The essays also include a list ...
This new edition of "Notable American Novelists" presents biographical sketches and analytical overviews of 145 of the best-known American and Canadian writers of long fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries, arranged alphabetically by name. The set's three volumes survey the novelists, whose works are included in core curricula of high school ...
This three volume set has been designed to reflect the British novelists most often studied at high school and in undergraduate literature courses. Included are profiles of 89 English authors, six Scottish, and nine Irish, arranged alphabetically for easy access. The novelist's birth dates and significant places are listed, along with a glossary ...
Rebecca West was talented, unpredictable and enigmatic, with a fearsome persona and a colourful private life. In reviewing her image as a great writer, the author of this book had exclusive access to her personal archives, providing details of her love affairs with H.G. Wells and Lord Beaverbrook. The book offers new material and an analysis of ...
"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 are outdated and do not take into account her posthumous publications, or her large literary archive of unpublished letters and manuscripts. Previous scholarly books ...
"Documentary Film: Contexts and Criticism" is designed to complement Rollyson's "Documentary Film: A Primer," The films discussed in this volume include "Zelig, the Lumiere brothers documentaries, Nanook of the North, The Man With a Movie Camera, Triumph of the Will, Olympia, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Why We Fight, Fires ...
Through diaries, letters, government files, and interviews Carl Rollyson draws a vital and vibrant portrait of the life, the work, and the legend of "Lillian Hellman," America's most controversial radical playwright. Rollyson explores the sources and backgrounds of her best-selling memoirs, the development of her politics, her successful ...
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