SUBJECT INDEX:

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY:

Entertainment & Performing Arts

Autobiography
Joseph Jefferson
Hardcover 1964
Graceland
Karal Ann Marling
He wasn't articulate on the subject of himself, but when he created his dream house Elvis Presley spoke volumes. What the mansion says of Elvis, and what it says to--and of--the millions of fans who make the journey there each year, is what Graceland is about.
Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
No Author Better Served
Edited by Maurice Harmon
Samuel Beckett
Alan Schneider
Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.
Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
On Stage, Off Stage
Luba Kadison
Joseph Buloff
Irving Genn
Paperback
Screening History
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington, D.C., boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics.
Paperback / Hardcover