Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like Children of God to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His ......
The second of three story collections from the writer of the acclaimed Bony crime novels, with 45 stories from the author's tramping around Australia, dealing with camels and station hands, and his experience in WW1 at Gallipoli and the Middle East. Full of fantastic characters only found in the great Australian bush.
'These Ghostly Archives' traces the authors as they work with Sylvia Plath's archival manuscripts and personal effects in the UK and US. Scholars have mined the richness of these materials for nearly fifty years, and the authors both haunt and are haunted by their subject. The resulting discoveries may change the way readers approach Plath.
The author of fifteen books set in the Sunshine State, Theodore Pratt (1901-1969) enjoyed an unofficial title of "Literary Laureate of Florida" in the middle of the twentieth century. His writings particularly capture the culture of south Florida, most famously in his "Florida Trilogy"-beginning with his most famous book, The Barefoot Mailman ......
The World Is Round is a lively novel, which tells the story of Jean a lovely and likeable Sydney woman with literary aspirations. First published in London in 1896 – before My Brilliant Career – the vitality and immediacy of this Australian classic.
"This fresh biography of Ian Fleming presents an illuminating portrayal of the iconic creator of James Bond. Oliver Buckton provides the first in-depth exploration of the process of Ian Flemings writing, his wartime intelligence work, and the strong women in his life, concluding with a thorough analysis of the James Bond films and Flemings ......
Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime
The first full-length biography of Emily Hale, the longtime secret love of the celebrated poet T. S. Eliot. In January 2020, the T. S. Eliot estate finally opened the largest and most eagerly awaited cache of new materials written by the Nobel-Prize-winning poet: the 1,131 letters he sent Emily Hale, his little-known American love. But even as ......
In this landmark new biography the leading critic Edward Chitham offers a contemporary account of the life and work of the English novelist and poet Anne Bronte (1820-49), the youngest member of the Bronte literary family.
