Now known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth, far from glittering publishing and film centers, yet few American writers can now equal his hold on audiences worldwide. This biography traces King's evolution from would-be pulp magazine writer to master of his craft, whose work both epitomizes and transcends the horror genre.
 Primary source bibliography of Stephen King's novels, fiction collections, and nonfiction, including his work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
 Exhaustive A-to-Z bibliography of books and articles about King and his work, including online resources and a list of Web sites devoted to King
 Photographs of King at different stages of his career

Stephen King: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Rolls, Albert

Arts & Literature

Greenwood

This thorough narrative examines Emiliano Zapata's life, his role in Mexico's revolutionary movement, and his true motivations and beliefs.
 • A timeline of important events in Zapata's life prefaces the narrative
• Photographs depicting Zapata over the course of his turbulent public career provide glimpses of a legend
• A complete bibliography provides students with a guide for further research
• An appendix contains a hard-to-find Mexican ballad about Zapata's funeral with an original English prose translation

Emiliano Zapata: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Community & Culture

The Theory of the King's Two Bodies in the Age of Shakespeare (Studies in Renaissance Literature, V. 19)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Edwin Mellen Pr

Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text (Writers and Their Contexts)

This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works – notably Gravity's Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction – remain mysterious to many, just as his life remains reclusive. Pynchon’s fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes. His most recent novel is Bleeding Edge, published in September 2013. In Thomas Pynchon: The Demon in the Text, Albert Rolls shows that Pynchon’s biography (or the traces of it that have emerged) can inform our understanding of Pynchon’s fiction and that the fiction can inform our understanding of the life. The material Rolls uses to present his argument is often marginal and includes the available letters, many of which can be found in libraries; juvenilia, that which Pynchon wrote for his high-school newspaper as well as the unfinished “Minstrel Island”; the essay “Hallowe’en? Over Already?”; newspaper and magazine articles; book trailers and other promotional material; Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Inherent Vice ; television shows, The Simpsons and The John Larroquette Show in particular; and the published non-fiction and fiction. Rolls analyzes this material to produce a reading of Pynchon that teases out the importance of the relationship among the public figure Thomas Pynchon, the private individual Tom Pynchon (who, Rolls demonstrates, resides in the text as a sort of Maxwell-Demon-like entity), and those who read Pynchon and sometimes attempt to learn about his life. The result is a study of Pynchon as an idea rather than a life of Pynchon, although biographical details are discussed when they need to be, particularly in endnotes that often serve as essays themselves. Contents: Acknowledgements. Note on the text. Fictional Autobiographies and Autobiographical Fictions. A Dual Man (and Oeuvre), Aimed Two Ways At Once: The Two Directions of Pynchon’s Life and Thought. Considering the Enclave. Epilogue. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index.

Edward Everett Root

This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works – notably Gravity's Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction – remain mysterious to many, just as his life remains reclusive. Pynchon’s fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes. His most recent novel is Bleeding Edge, published in September 2013. In Thomas Pynchon: The Demon in the Text, Albert Rolls shows that Pynchon’s biography (or the traces of it that have emerged) can inform our understanding of Pynchon’s fiction and that the fiction can inform our understanding of the life. The material Rolls uses to present his argument is often marginal and includes the available letters, many of which can be found in libraries; juvenilia, that which Pynchon wrote for his high-school newspaper as well as the unfinished “Minstrel Island”; the essay “Hallowe’en? Over Already?”; newspaper and magazine articles; book trailers and other promotional material; Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Inherent Vice ; television shows, The Simpsons and The John Larroquette Show in particular; and the published non-fiction and fiction. Rolls analyzes this material to produce a reading of Pynchon that teases out the importance of the relationship among the public figure Thomas Pynchon, the private individual Tom Pynchon (who, Rolls demonstrates, resides in the text as a sort of Maxwell-Demon-like entity), and those who read Pynchon and sometimes attempt to learn about his life. The result is a study of Pynchon as an idea rather than a life of Pynchon, although biographical details are discussed when they need to be, particularly in endnotes that often serve as essays themselves. Contents: Acknowledgements. Note on the text. Fictional Autobiographies and Autobiographical Fictions. A Dual Man (and Oeuvre), Aimed Two Ways At Once: The Two Directions of Pynchon’s Life and Thought. Considering the Enclave. Epilogue. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index.

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Stephen King: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Emiliano Zapata: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

The Theory of the King's Two Bodies in the Age of Shakespeare (Studies in Renaissance Literature, V. 19)

Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text (Writers and Their Contexts)

Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text (Writers and Their Contexts)