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Ronald Hayman
Ronald Hayman (1932-2019)

biographer, literary critic, playwright, actor

  • University of Cambridge

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Tennessee Williams
Proust
Thomas Mann
John Gielgud
Hitler and Geli
A life of Jung
K
The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath
De Sade
Sartre
Artaud and after
John Osborne
Nietzsche, a critical life
Brecht
Fassbinder, film maker
Secrets
Nietzsche
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
John Arden
Thed eath and life of Sylvia Plath
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
Writing against
My Cambridge
Sartre
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
Fassbinder
Writing Against a Biography of Sartre
De Sade
How to read a play
Arnold Wesker
Harold Pinter
Theatre and anti-theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Gunter Grass
Tom Stoppard
Arthur Miller
My Oxford, my Cambridge
Edward Albee
Samuel Beckett
Nietzsche
Eugène Ionesco
British theatre since 1955
Tolstoy
The set-up
Günter Grass
Playback
British drama since 1970
Leavis
Samuel Beckett
Techniques of acting
John Whiting
The first thrust
Contemporary playwrights
My Cambridge (My University)
Eugene Ionesco
Brecht
Playback 2
The novel today, 1967-1975
Leavis
Playing the wife
Fassbinder
Arnold Wesker
The German theatre
Robert Bolt
Marquis de Sade
How to read a play
Secrets
John Arden
Literature and living
The novel today
Arthur Miller (Contemporary Playwrights)
One hundred years of drama
Edward Albee (Contemporary Playwrights)
Tom Stoppard (Contemporary Playwrights)
Marcel Proust. Die Geschichte seines Lebens
Tolstoy (Profiles in Literature)
Arnold Wesker. (World dramatists)
Heroes, villains and true love conquers all
Situation de la littérature anglaise d'après-guerre
Arguing with Walt Whitman
Ḳafḳa
Harold Pinter
Billy Hayes
Billy Hayes (born 1947)

actor, film director

  • Marquette University

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Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell (born 1945)

biographer, teacher, film actor

  • University of Washington

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Bruce Lee
The Bruce Lee story
Breaking the chains of the ancient warrior
The life and tragic death of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Jeet Kune Do
Marguerite Courtney
Marguerite Courtney (1903-1994)

actor, journalist

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Waris Dirie
Waris Dirie (born 1965)

model, autobiographer, women's rights activist, film actor, goodwill ambassador, actor, humanitarian

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Wüstenblume
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM
Amanecer en el desierto
Desert Children
Mijn Woestijn
Echte vrouwen denken anders
Dochter van de nomaden
Schwarze Frau, weißes Land
Waris Dirie Omnibus
Brief an meine Mutter
Schmerzenskinder
Aube du Desert (l')
MY COUNTRY
Niñas del desierto
Anneme Mektup
Pirkko Saisio
Pirkko Saisio (born 1949)

actor, film director, librettist, director, pedagogue

  • Theatre Academy Helsinki

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George Plimpton
George Plimpton (1927-2003)

journalist, actor, American football player, television actor, film actor

  • Harvard University, University of Cambridge

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Paper Lion
Truman Capote
Open net
Mad ducks and bears
The bogey man
Out of my league
The Writer's chapbook
Paper Lion
Writers at work
Writers at work
Paper lion
One more July
Ernest Shackleton
Shadow Box
Out of My League
Edie
Writers at work
Truman Capote
Mad Ducks and Bears
Mad Ducks and Bears
Thanks, George!
Pierre's Book
The Paris Review
The X Factor
The curious case of Sidd Finch
Women Writers at Work
The Harper's index book
The best American sports writing, 1997
Writers at work
The Paris Review Book
Pet peeves, or, Whatever happened to Doctor Rawff?
Home run
Fireworks
The Writer's Chapbook
The rabbit's umbrella
Writers at work
A sports bestiary
The man in the flying lawn chair and other excursions and observations
The best of Plimpton
As Told at the Explorers Club
The rabbit's umbrella
Shadow box
Latin American writers at work
The Norton book of sports
One for the Record
The Paris review anthology
The Paris Review/Issue 134 (Paris Review No. 134)
George Plimpton on Sports (On)
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Poets at work
The Paris Review # 141 Winter 1996
Paris Review #148
One for the record
Playwrights at work
Writers at work
The Best American Movie Writing 1998 (Serial)
The Paris Review, No 135
Writers at work
Writers at work
Graduation day
Writers at work
Poets at work
As told at the Explorers Club
Bogey Man
The Paris Review
Writers at work
Thec urious case of Sidd Finch
Oakes Ames
Writers at work
The curious case of Sidd Finch
Beat Writers at Work
The Official Olympics Triplecast viewer's guide
Open Net
Writers at work
Playwrights at Work
Introducing the great American novel
Home Run
Writers at work
Home Run (Harvest Original)
Curious Case of Sidd Finch
THE BOGEY MAN [First Edition] 1st
Paris Review
Writers at work
Writers at work
Paper Lion
Writers at work
Encyclopedia of great stories, jokes & anecdotes
Open Net
Writers at work
As Told at the Explorers Club
Hamptons
Paper Lion
Writers at work
Gentlemen Volunteers
Women Writers at Work
Chronicles of courage
Paper Lion
Out of my league
The man in the flying lawn chair and other excursions and observations
As Told at the Explorers Club
Ernest Hemingway
The rabbit's umbrella
Shadow Box
Hank Aaron
Boxing
Curious Case of S. Finch
As Told at the Explorers Club
Paris Review Guide to Good Writing
Beat writers at work
Go Caroline!
Sports
Paper Liion
THE BOGEYMAN VOLS 1 2 AND 3
Gentleman Volunteers
Bogey Man
Paris Review Interviews
PAPER LION by GEORGE PLIMPTON POCKET BOOKS PAPERBACK 1966 1967
Hampton Shorts
American Writers
Edie
Breaking 90 with Johnny Miller
Frank Sinatra (LIVES)
Joan Howard Maurer
Joan Howard Maurer (1927-2021)

actor

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Curly, an illustrated biography of the superstooge
Curly
The Three Stooges Book of Scripts
The Three Stooges scrapbook
Three Stooges Scrapbook
Three Stooges