This life of the late popular writer, following his career from his first success to his death, details Saroyan's rise and fall and notes the place in his life of ambition, anti-Semitism and compulsive gambling

Saroyan: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Lee, Lawrence

Gifford,Barry

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

Here, in the voices of his friends and lovers, is the fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats." Jack's Book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of a man and a generation which shaped the dreams and visions of our own.

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Penguin??Books

"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way
First published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to his tragic end in Florida at the age of forty-seven. Including anecdotes from an eclectic list of well-known figures such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gore Vidal, as well as Kerouac's ordinary acquaintances, this groundbreaking oral biography—the first of its kind—presents us with a remarkably insightful portrait of an American legend and the spirit of a generation.

Penguin Publishing Group

A practicing glazier discusses the properties of and the criteria for judging stained glass, focusing primarily on English stained-glass art

The Appreciation of Stained Glass

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The reminiscences and revelations of the American writer's colleagues, acquaintances, boyhood friends, and lovers, illuminating his life, works, and the spirit of mid-century America, are bound together by commentary

St Martins Pr

Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of an American literary legend, recorded through the voices of the friends and lovers of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats." Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Keoruac's life at home and on the road, and talked with the prophets, musicians, poets, socialites, and working people who knew Jack Kerouac. Some are famous (Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, among others), some are not (Jack's boyhood buddies, his lovers, his barroom companions). All have contributed to a remarkably vibrant, riveting portrait of a life. We see Jack at Columbia University and on the scene of Greenwich Village; speeding across the tarmac of America with Neal Cassidy ("Dan Moriarty" in Keorac's classic novel, On the Road); at home with his possessive mother; in California, drinking wine and talking Buddhism; and finally, in Florida, where his life ends tragically at age forty-seven. Jack's Book, like Kerouac's novels, makes a unique contribution to our understanding of a man and a generation that shaped the dreams and visions of those who followed.

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography Of Jack Kerouac

St. Martin's: Griffin

Along with Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Time of Your Life and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Human Comedy, was the most well-known American writer of the 1930s and 1940s. Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford heard Saroyan's story first-hand from Carol Matthau, the wife he rejected; the son and daughter he alternately smothered and pushed away; and colleagues like Artie Shaw, Celeste Holm, and Lillian Gish. Their revelations bring new depth to Saroyan's riveting story.

University of California Press

The Lower Cape Fear in Colonial Days

University of North Carolina

Stained glass

George Seddon

Francis Stephens

Crown Publishers, Inc.

Reviews the history of English stained glass and provides an introduction to the materials, equipment, and methods used in this craft

Stained Glass

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Colporteur Press

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Books by Lee, Lawrence

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Saroyan: A Biography

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

The Appreciation of Stained Glass

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography Of Jack Kerouac

Saroyan: A Biography

The Lower Cape Fear in Colonial Days

Stained glass

Stained Glass