George Garrett

Recreates the life of Sir Walter Raleigh, focusing on the religious disputes which attended the reign of Elizabeth I

A Novel of Elizabeth and Ralegh

Death of the Fox

As Queen Elizabeth lays dying, the political forces of the leading families congregate and the whole of England shudders with expectation and apprehension over the question of her successor

A Novel of Elizabeth and James

The Succession

A tale of Elizabethan England focuses on the murder of a poet, playwright, and sometimes spy, Christopher Marlowe, as two men are hired by rival political factions to investigate the event

The Murder of Marlowe

Entered from the Sun

Matthew J. Bruccoli

Professor George P Garrett

Understanding Mary Lee Settle

The stories collected describe the conflicts of adolescence, romantic and domestic turmoil, life in small southern towns, academic life and wartime experiences, and they range in manner from the naturalistic to the near-farcical.

An Evening Performance

Some Revisions in As I Lay Dying

Jane R. Gelfman

Osborne Bennett Hardison (Jr.)

Film Scripts: Henry V. The big sleep. A streetcar named Desire

Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1992

Alan Sillitoe

Joyce Carol Oates

Leonard Michaels

John Banville

William Trevor

Paul Bowles

Bruce Jay Friedman

Jerome Charyn

William Goldman

Malcolm Bradbury

John Updike

John McPhee

Austin Clarke

Sol Yurick

Thomas Bridges

Jay Neugeboren

Daniel Spicehandler

Jean Claude Van Itallie

Penelope Gilliatt

Harry D. Miller

Alfred Chester

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Frank Tuohy

Irvin Faust

Morris Lurie

Asa Baber

Paul Breslow

Hugh Allyn Hunt

Edward Franklin

Norma Meacock

Virginia Moriconi

Shirley Schoonover

Walter Clemons

Stories from the Transatlantic Review

Paul Ruffin

"Southern fiction is alive and kicking and going off in all kinds of directions as this old century staggers to an end." To prove their audacious pronouncement, George Garrett and Paul Ruffin have assembled thirty-one stories representing the best of recent Southern fiction. These stories weave together themes that underscore what being Southern is all about: the retelling of the past, the uncertainty of the future, the haunting presence of racial guilt, the inescapable influence of family - for better or worse, the struggle for survival, and the tragedy and humor of Southern life. As Fred Chappell writes in introducing these works: "Southern literature is almost as legendary a part of Southern history as the battles and politics." Born of a Texas Review competition to honor outstanding new writing, the collection snowballed as Garrett and Ruffin realized that Southern fiction of the 1990s merits a gathering all its own. The contributors hail from nearly every Southern state - Texas to Virginia; their subjects span the world; their styles fit no defined formulas; their works both praise and parody the literary legacy of their forebears. Some writers are well known while others are virtually unknown. Only two stories have appeared in previous collections. Unified by excellence as much as by region, these works comprise the most representative, comprehensive, and entertaining collection of short Southern fiction to be published in decades.

That's what I Like (about the South), and Other New Southern Stories for the Nineties

Sir Slob and the Princess

Series information from publisher's website.

The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett

Ten Years on the Parish

A Book of Stories

In the Briar Patch

O. B. Hardison

Film Scripts: High noon. Twelve angry men. The defiant ones

The Craft of The Wapshot Scandal

John Cheever and the Charms of Innocence

“This is surely the best historical novel in many years,” wrote Peter S. Prescott in Newsweek about Death of the Fox, George Garrett’s unparalleled reentry, into the heart of the English Renaissance. His new novel, The Succession, is surely the finest since: a triumph of intellect and imagination that once more brilliantly re-creates Elizabethan England. After decades of rule, Elizabeth I lies dying. She has overcomes the Spanish, the Pope, power-hungry noblemen, even her beloved Essex. England is prospering under her; she is, they say, married to it. Who will succeed her? Who can? To read The Succession is to be plunged into the last days of this great age, to experience its humanity, color, pageantry, and drama; its grandeur, squalor, splendor, and folly. And to better imagine the procession that came before us (in any land) and the succession to follow.

"12 Angry Men" (1957, United Artist), with a script by Reginald Rose, directed by Sydney Lumet, starring Martin Balsam, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman and Henry Fonda. It received Academy Award nominations for best picture, best director, best screenplay based on material from another medium.

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