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WorksCarl Sandburg: A Biography
This first comprehensive biography of Carl Sandburg grew out of a decade of research in Sandburg’s papers and more than 150 interviews with his family, friends and colleagues, part of the national Carl Sandburg Oral History Project which Penelope Niven founded and directed. The biography has been called "indispensable," "groundbreaking," and "extraordinarily fine." Steichen: A Biography
This first major biography of painter and photographer Edward Steichen (Carl Sandburg’s brother-in-law) has been called "an absolute necessity for understanding the development of photography as an art form in the first half of [the twentieth] century." Grounded in archival material gathered around the world, and interviews with Steichen’s daughters and granddaughter, the biography reveals Steichen’s turbulent personal life and the evolution of his groundbreaking art. Voices and Silences
This moving, compelling, candid memoir grew out of hundreds of hours of interviews Penelope Niven conducted with James Earl Jones and his family, friends and colleagues, complemented by extensive archival research. As one critic noted, "To read of Jones’s 'glorious experiences' finding himself in the spoken word is to read of a soul reborn." |
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