The writing of the biography is solid and it covers Vonnegut's whole life but your interest in delving into this lengthy biography is dependent on your interest in Vonnegut himself. Have to say that my attention waned as he became more a philanderer and I found myself more interested in what was ...
Well, what can I say about this biography of Mr. Vonnegut? He's always been a mystery to me, this strange, awkward man who authored rather peculiar worlds of fantasy. And he remains so. But Charles Shields lets some light through the chinks in Vonnegut's armor by describing the hell that Vonnegut...
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee Author: Charles J. Shields ©2006Publisher: Henry Holt and CompanyISBN-13:978-0-7394-7846-2 324 PagesFifty-one years after the publication of her Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee is again claiming the headlines. CBS News ...
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. It's also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusi...
—J. B. Lippincott corporate history,privately published (1967) The Lippincott editors who assembled to meet Nelle were all men except one: the vice president, a woman in her early sixties dressed in a business suit, with her steel-gray hair pulled tightly back. Her name was Theresa von Hohoff—but...