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Biography: 
The Arts 



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Biography: 
The Arts 1980 

Library of Congress 
Washington 1980 





Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. 
Biography the arts. 

Includes index. 

1. Arts Biography Bibliography. 2. Talking books- 
Bibliography. 3. Blind, Books for the Bibliography. 
I. Talking book topics. II. Braille book review. Ill Title 
Z5938.N37 1980 [NX90] 016.7 '0092 '2 80-14317 

ISBN 0-8444-0318-0 



Contents 




Introduction 


Actors and Actresses 




Discs 


1 




Cassettes 


8 




Braille 


13 


Artists 




Discs 


15 




Cassettes 


15 




Braille 


16 


Authors 




Discs 


17 




Cassettes 


20 




Braille 


24 


Dancers 




Discs 


27 




Braille 


27 



Editors, Publishers, and 

Reporters 



Discs 



28 



Cassettes 



30 



Braille 



Discs 



31 



Musicians, Composers, and 
Singers 



32 



Cassettes 



35 



Braille 



37 



Bibliographies 



40 



Introduction 



This bibliography is a guide to 
biographies in the arts. All books listed 
are available on disc or cassette or in 
braille in the collections of the National 
Library Service for the Blind and 
Physically Handicapped. 

Biography has many facets: the 
roundedness of works derived from 
thorough research, the intimacy of per- 
sonal reminiscences from family and 
friends, the self -revelation of memoirs 
and autobiography. Biographies of peo- 
ple in the arts portray a variety of 
gifted, creative personalities. Through 
biography, artists, musicians, actors, 
and authors are reborn in literary form 
to delight, inspire, and humanize their 
audience. Such accounts serve as a key 
to the history of the arts and contribute 
to making biography the largest nonfic- 
tion genre. 

Two classic biographies appear in this 
bibliography: The Life of Samuel 
Johnson (1791) by James Bos well, 
which stands as the major model of 
modern biography, and The Life of 
Charlotte Bronte (1857) by novelist 
Elizabeth Gaskell, which remains the 
starting point in the study of the 
Brontes. Also listed is G. K. Chester- 
ton's Charles Dickens (1906), another 
instance of an author deeply involved 



in the life and works of another 
author. 

There are also reminiscences about 
famous people written by members of 
their families, as seen in Unwritten 
Memories by Katia Mann, who recalls 
her marriage lasting more than fifty 
years with German author Thomas 
Mann; Papa: A Personal Memoir by 
Gregory Hemingway, the younger son 
of the writer who brought terseness to 
American prose; and Renoir, My 
Father, by Jean Renoir, son of the im- 
pressionist painter and himself a dis- 
tinguished film director. 

Memoirs include Happy Days, Heathen 
Days, and Newspaper Days, H. L. 
Mencken's literate portrayal of his 
childhood, youth, and Baltimore and 
the newspaper world in the early part 
of this century. In a lighter vein, there 
are At Random: The Reminiscences of 
Bennett Cerfby the late publisher, 
humorist, and punster; and Everything 
but Money by Sam Levenson, humorist 
and former educator. 

Actors, artists, and authors share in- 
sights and professional experiences in 
My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin, 
Grandma Moses: My Life's History, 
and An Autobiography by Agatha 
Christie. An unusual autobiographical 
form is found in Live or Die by Anne 
Sexton, a collection of agonizing poems 
that won a Pulitzer Prize. 



Biography The Arts is available in 
large-print, disc, and braille formats. 
The large-print edition contains more 
than 250 titles on disc or cassette or in 
braille, and lists bibliographies avail- 
able on other subjects. The disc edition 
lists only recorded materials, and the 
braille edition lists only braille. 

Each book in the bibliography is des- 
cribed briefly. To locate books, use 
either the table of contents, which has 
six subject categories, or refer to the 



index, which lists books by author and 
title. Books under subject sections and 
in the index are listed alphabetically by 
media. If you are unable to find a 
specific book, write or call your 
cooperating library. 

To order books, fill out the order form 
at the back of the bibliography and 
send it to your cooperating library. 
Book numbers are listed numerically by 
media. 



Actors and 
Actresses 



Discs 



Actor, The Life and Times of Paul 
Muni RD 7975 
by Jerome Lawrence 
narrated by Alan Hewitt 
7 discs 

A study laced with humor and anecdotes 
of the talented and tortured actor who 
won fame for his portrayals of Zola, 
Scarface, Juarez, and Pasteur. Also 
describes Muni's wife, Bella, who helped 
build one of the most unusual husband- 
and-wife teams in movie history. 1974. 



Arlene Francis: A Memoir RD 11874 

by Arlene Francis with Florence Rome 
narrated by Barbara Caruso 
3 discs 

Familiar to the public as a television and 
radio star, the actress recalls her 
childhood, romance, career, marriage, 
motherhood, and friendships. Among 
the famous personalities mentioned are 
Bennett Cerf, Kitty Carlisle, and Orson 
Welles. Some strong language. 1978. 



Ava: A Life Story RD 7625 

by Charles Higham 

narrated by John Stratton 

3 discs 

Portrait of the Hollywood sex goddess, 

Ava Gardner, who makes her own life 

rules and chooses her own men. Based 

on interviews with those who have 

known and worked with her. 1974. 



Bring on the Empty Horses RD 90 

by David Niven 

narrated by Norman Barrs 

5 discs 

Collection of descriptions, impressions, 

and anecdotes about Hollywood from 

the wild thirties to the early days of 

television. The actor provides such hap 

py reminiscences as boating with Errol 

Frynn, playing chess with Humphrey 

Bogart, and fishing with Clark Gable. 

Strong language. Bestseller 1976. 

Change Lobsters, and Dance: An 
Autobiography RD 9868 

by Lilli Palmer 

narrated by Mitzi Friedlander 

5 discs 

Personal memoirs by a beautiful and 

successful actress, television producer, 

and artist. Contains portraits of famou; 

friends including Bernard Shaw, Greta 

Garbo, Noel Coward, Gary Cooper, 

David Niven, and Ronald Colman. 197 

Changing RD 10166 

by Liv Ullmann, translated by Liv 
Ullmann 

narrated by Elizabeth Swain 
3 discs 

World-famous international actress ex- 
poses her thoughts about life, love, and 
work. Her frank account includes a sen 
sitive portrait of the Swedish film direc 
tor Ingmar Bergman, who fathered her 
child. Bestseller 1977. 

Chaplin RD 8001 

by Roger Manvell 
narrated by Bob Adams 
3 discs 



A tfrmsn mm Historian cnromcies me 
life of Charlie Chaplin and his rise from 
the rags of a shabby London district to 
the riches of Hollywood. He also traces 
the actor's development as an artist. 
1974. 



The Count: The Life and Films of Bela 
"Dracula" Lugosi RD 8002 

by Arthur Lennig 
narrated by Frank Coffee 
4 discs 

A film critic relates the life of actor Bela 
Lugosi, beginning with his rise to star- 
dom in the Hungarian theater. Resigning 
himself to weird roles in Hollywood 
films, Lugosi asked to be buried in his 
Dracula cape. 1974. 



Dark Lady of the Silents: My Life in 
Early Hollywood RD 7077 
by Miriam Cooper with Bonnie Herndon 
narrated by Janis Gray 
3 discs 

Revelations from a star of the early days 
of movies. Miss Cooper recalls Theda 
Bara, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fair- 
banks, and Fatty Arbuckle. 1973. 



Distinguished Company RD 7110 

by John Gielgud 

narrated by Alan Haines 

2 discs 

A collection of personal reminiscences 

and sketches of celebrities the English 

actor has known on and off the stage. 

1973. 



uon i Jrm *our uaugmer on me 
Stage RD 6084 

by Margaret Webster 
narrated by Pauline Flanagan 
7 discs 

The author has performed in the theatre 
since the age of five when her actress- 
mother, Dame May Witty, put her on 
the stage. This account of her life-long 
love affair with the entertainment world 
includes reminiscences of friendships 
with other stars. 1972. 

Doris Day: Her Own Story RD 9280 

by A.E. Hotchner 
narrated by Janis Gray 
5 discs 

The actress-singer candidly reminisces 
about her Pollyanna image, her triumphs 
and tragedies, and her career. She 
discusses her mother, her friends, and 
actors James Garner, Jack Lemmon, 
and James Stewart. Bestseller 1975. 

Every Other Inch a Lady RD 6668 

by Beatrice Lillie with John Philip and 
James Brough 
narrated by Ilka Chase 
3 discs 

The comedienne recalls the ups and 
downs of her life, from her childhood 
through her successes in London and 
New York. 1972. 

Gene Kelly: A Biography RD 8348 

by Clive Hirschhorn 
narrated by Bradley Bransford 
5 discs 

A theater critic traces the life and career 
of the dancer, singer, actor, and direc- 
tor, from his humble beginnings in 



Philadelphia to international stardom. 
The author's portrait discloses a warm 
and affectionate human being. 1974. 

Ginger, Loretta, and Irene Who? 
RD 10472 

by George Eells 

narrated by Leon Janney 

7 discs 

The heights and depths of stardom as 

reflected in the careers of six Hollywood 

actresses of the 1930s: Ginger Rogers, 

Miriam Hopkins, Ruth Etting, Loretta 

Young, Kay Francis, and Irene Bentley. 

1976. 



Haywire RD 10219 

by Brooke Hayward 
narrated by Gwen Davenport 

4 discs 

The daughter of actress Margaret 
Sullivan and Leland Hayward, a colorful 
and dynamic Hollywood theatrical 
agent, relates the shattering story of her 
extraordinarily glamorous and privileged 
family. Some strong language. 1977. 

Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred 
Hitchcock RD 13090 

by John Russell Taylor 
narrated by Art Metzler 

5 discs 

Authorized biography of the famed film- 
maker portrayed as "a straightforward 
middle-class Englishman who just hap- 
pened to be an artistic genius." Covers 
Hitchcock's childhood and career, fami- 
ly life, relations with his stars, and 
working methods. 1978. 



Humphrey Bogart RD 8394 

by Nathaniel Benchley 
narrated by Ralph Bell 
2 discs 

Affectionate portrait of a society blue 
blood who became one of the screen's 
most popular actors. The author, who 
was a close friend of Bogart, sorts myths 
and facts about the legendary star. 
Strong language. 1975. 



In One Era and Out the Other 
RD7090 

by Sam Levenson 
narrated by Leon Janney 
4 discs 

The comedian and former schoolteacher 
presents a spritely collection of nostalgic 
reminiscences from his background of 
Jewish orthodoxy and poverty. A com- 
bination of chuckles and helpful 
homilies. 1973. 



Jack Benny RD 11448 

by Mary Livingston Benny and Hilliard 
Marks with Marcia Borie 
narrated by Diane Eilenberg 
6 flexible discs 

Biography of the beloved comedian in 
which such stars as Edgar Bergen, 
Johnny Carson, and George Burns recall 
his many kindnesses and memorable 
comic performances. Covers his 
vaudeville beginnings and Carnegie Hall 
appearances as a violinist. Includes 
nostalgic snatches of radio and TV 
scripts. Some strong language. 1978. 



The Jack Benny Show RD 10227 
by Milt Josefsberg 
narrated by Hal Tenny 
6 discs 

Portrait of the vaudeville comic Benny 
Kubelsky, who became Jack Benny, a 
comedian who dominated radio and 
television for over forty years. Some 
strong language. 1977. 

Jane: An Intimate Biography of Jane 

Fonda RD 7370 

by Thomas J. Kiernan 

narrated by Janis Gray 

4 discs 

Portrait of Jane Fonda from her early 

days and difficulties in a famous family 

to her marriage to Tom Hayden in 1973. 

For high school and adult readers. 1973. 

Jayne Mansfield and the American 
Fifties RD 8312 

by Martha Saxton 
narrated by Petie Scale 

3 discs 

Biography of the short, tragic life of a 
self-made star and sex symbol of the fif- 
ties. Depicts the actress's dreams and 
fantasies, her need for masculine ap- 
proval, and her hunger for publicity. Ex- 
plicit descriptions of sex. 1975. 

Joan Crawford RD 13152 

by Bob Thomas 

narrated by Suzanne Toren 

4 discs 

Rags-to-riches story of the young woman 
who was a legendary movie star for over 
fifty years. Describes her rise from 
telephone operator in Kansas City to 
chorus-line dancer and ultimate stardom. 



Covers her struggles, marriages, scan- 
dals, triumphs, and bouts with alcohol. 
Some strong language. 1978. 

Judy RD 8405 

by Gerold Frank 

narrated by Bradley Bransford 

10 discs 

Definitive biography of one of the most 

popular stars ever to emerge from 

Hollywood. With access to all of the 

Garland material available, the author 

portrays the glamorous, tragic life of the 

multi-talented performer. 1975. 



Karloff : The Life of Boris Karioff 
RD6433 

by Peter Underwood 
narrated by Max Howard 
3 discs 

An account of the life and personality, 
in and out of film roles, of the famous 
horror-movie actor who played the 
monster in Frankenstein. Includes an ap- 
pendix of the films in which he ap- 
peared. 1972. 



Kate: The Life of Katherine Hepburn 
RD8452 

by Charles Higham 
narrated by Robert Evan Jones 
4 discs 

Authorized biography highlighting the 
determination and sense of humor of the 
elusive New England Yankee whose act- 
ing career began in 1932. Strong 
language. 1975. 



Lauren BacaU: By Myself RD 13275 
by Lauren Bacall 
narrated by Yvonne Fair Tessler 
10 flexible discs 

The life of the popular actress and her 
big break leading to Hollywood star- 
dom. She tells of her years as Mrs. 
Humphrey Bogart and Bogie's death 
from cancer, her failed marriage to 
Jason Robards, her children, and herself 
as she is today. Some strong language. 
Bestseller 1979. 

Living It Up; or, They Still Love Me in 
Altoona RD 10246 

by George Burns 

narrated by Art Metzler 

3 discs 

George Burns 's reflections on his show 

business career and personal life. Rich in 

anecdotes. 1976. 

Long Live the King: A Biography of 

Clark Gable RD 10422 

by Lyn Tornabene 

narrated by Bob Askey 

8 flexible discs 

Portrait of the movie star who for many 

was the epitome of the masculine ideal. 

Captures the actor's romances and 

defeats, and penetrates the legend that 

surrounded this complex and fascinating 

man. Some strong language. 1976. 

Love, Laughter, and Tears: My 
Hollywood Story RD 11755 
by Adela Rogers St. Johns 
narrated by Yvonne Fair Tessler 
7 flexible discs 

Hearst reporter in her eighties, and self- 
styled "Mother Confessor" to 



Hollywood stars of the twenties and thir- 
ties, relates many stories of the rich, 
famous, and misunderstood. Among 
those she includes are Pickford, Fair- 
banks, Chaplin, Arbuckle, Valentino, 
Swanson, Garbo, and Harlow. 1978. 

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks: 
The Most Popular Couple the World 
Has Ever Known RD 11129 

by Booton Herndon 
narrated by Dick Brehm 
6 flexible discs 

Private, inside story of the relationship 
between the king and queen of silent 
films, whose off-screen romance paral- 
leled their movie scripts. 1977. 

Milton Berle: An Autobiography 
RD7979 

by Milton Berle with Haskel Frankel 
narrated by Alan Hewitt 
6 discs 

Reveals the truth about the entertainer. 
Tells of his romantic liaisons with 
evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and 
Marilyn Monroe, and explains his rela- 
tionship with his domineering stage 
mother. 1974. 

Mommie Dearest RD 12943 

by Christina Crawford 
narrated by Yvonne Fair Tessler 
5 flexible discs 

The oldest adopted child of movie queen 
Joan Crawford, who died in 1977, tells a 
shocking story of what it was like living 
with her mother. Revelations of punish- 
ment, humiliation, and exploitation are 
described by the daughter of the famous 
star, who demanded that her children 



Actors and Actresses 
refer to her as "Mommie dearest." 
Some strong language and some explicit 
descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1978. 

Montgomery Clift: A Biography 
RD 12017 

by Patricia Bosworth 
narrated by Catherine Byers 
5 discs 

Explores the inner life and tragic striv- 
ings of the actor who remained an 
enigmatic figure to his friends. Based on 
interviews with directors, actors, and 
playwrights. Some strong language. 
1978. 



Papa, Play for Me: The Hilarious, 
Heartwarming Autobiography of 
Comedian and Bandleader Mickey Katz 
RD 11710 

by Mickey Katz 
narrated by Leon Janney 
3 discs 

Autobiography of the successful 
Yiddish-American comedian and singer. 
Katz reminisces about his youth, his 
beginnings as a musician and comic, and 
his family. 1977. 



Princess Grace RD 10843 

by Gwen Robyns 
narrated by Jill Ferris 
5 flexible discs 

Romantic portrait of Grace Kelly, the 
Hollywood star who became princess of 
Monaco. Sheds lights on her career as 
actress, her life as wife and mother, and 
her devotion to charitable causes. 1976. 



Richard Burton, Very Close Up 
RD6242 

by John Cottrell and Fergus Cashin 
narrated by Gordon Gould 
6 discs 

Interviews with people from Burton's 
past combine with critiques of his stage 
acting and film work in this biography, 
one-half of which is devoted to his life 
with Elizabeth Taylor. 1971. 

Ronald Colman, a Very Private Person: 
A Biography RD 8458 

by Juliet Benita Colman 
narrated by Barbara Caruso 
3 discs 

Nostalgic biography by the daughter of 
the movie star. The son of a silk mer- 
chant, Colman dabbled in amateur 
theatricals before seeing action in World 
War I. His career as an actor was 
launched in films with his appearance 
opposite Lillian Gish in 1923. 1975. 

Shooting Star: A Biography of John 

Wayne RD 7362 

by Maurice Zolotow 

narrated by Robert Gerringer 

6 discs 

Portrait of the actor whose films have 

collectively grossed more than those of 

any other star. Account of his life, 

career, and battle with cancer. 1974. 



Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry 
Like Christmas RD 10251 

by Maya Angelou 
narrated by Adale O'Brien 
3 discs 



Angelou's autobiography covers her 
twenties, when she developed her first 
meaningful relationship with whites and 
began her theatrical career. Also 
describes her short-lived marriage to a 
Greek sailor. 1976. 

Son of Groucho RD 6383 

by Arthur Marx 
narrated by Ralph Bell 
5 discs 

An intimate family portrait with anec- 
dotes about the comedian and the 
celebrities who frequented the Marx 
household. The author also reveals some 
of the problems of living in the shadow 
of a world-famous man. 1972. 

Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own 

Story RD 13487 

by A.E. Hotchner 

narrated by Debbie Trissell 

5 flexible discs 

Biography of the glamorous film star 

Sophia Loren, from slum urchin in 

Naples to reigning queen of the movies. 

Covers her poverty stricken childhood, 

marriage and criminal prosecution for 

adultery, and her unwavering struggle to 

have a child. 1979. 

Sun and Shadow RD 10738 

by Jean Pierre Aumont, translated by 

Bruce Benderson 

narrated by Richard Braun 

2 discs 

With Gallic wit and self-deprecating 

humor, the French actor-playwright 

recalls his career with anecdotes about 

his co-stars and personal friends: Melina 

Mercouri, Rex Harrison, Charles Boyer, 



Actors and Actresses 
Colette, and Marlene Dietrich. Some 
strong language. 1977. 

The Talking Clowns: From Laurel and 
Hardy to the Marx Brothers 
RD 11003 

by Frank Manchel 
narrated by Alan Hewitt 
2 discs 

Sketches of the lives and careers of great 
film comedians of the 1930s: Laurel and 
Hardy, W.C. Fields, Mae West, and the 
Marx Brothers. For high school and 
adult readers. 1976. 



The Verdict RD 9369 
by Hildegarde Neff , translated by David 
Anthony Palastanga 
narrated by Johanna Albrecht 
6 discs 

The German actress and singer con- 
templates her career, family, and endless 
bouts of serious illness, including breast 
cancer. 1975. 



Vivien Leigh: A Biography 

RD 11496 

by Anne Edwards 

narrated by Elizabeth Swain 

7 flexible discs 

Intimate portrait of the dazzling and 

talented British actress best known for 

her role of Scarlett in Gone with the 

Wind. Reveals the dual personality of a 

much admired woman who suffered 

from manic depression and died of 

tuberculosis. Some strong language. 

1977. 



Actors and Actresses 
Wide-Eyed in Babylon: An 
Autobiography RD 8097 

by Ray Milland 
narrated by Norman Barrs 
4 discs 

The Welsh-born actor who has appeared 
in more than two hundred films tells of 
his beginnings in rural Wales, his abor- 
tive experience as a sailor, his loss of in- 
nocence, his entry into the household 
cavalry in England, and his life as a star 
in Hollywood. Explicit descriptions of 
sex. 1974. 



Actors and 
Actresses 



Cassettes 



Anything for a Quiet Life: The 
Autobiography of Jack Hawkins 
RC 8609 

by Jack Hawkins 
narrated by Hugh Lampman 
3 cassettes 

The English actor, known for his un- 
mistakable voice, was afflicted with 
cancer in 1966 and lost his power of 
speech. With courage and humor, he 
relates how he continued to act with his 
voice dubbed in. His widow completed 
this work. 1973. 

Black Film Stars RC 9215 

by Eileen Landay 

narrated by Petie Seale 

2 cassettes 

The lives and careers of thirty famous 

black actors and actresses from Stepin 

Fetchit, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters 



to Richard Roundtree and Cicely Tyson. 
For junior and senior high and adult 
readers. 1973. 

Bogart and Bacall: A Love Story 
RC 9217 

by Joe Hyams 
narrated by Peter Case 
3 cassettes 

Intimate account of the courtship and 
marriage of two superstars, Humphrey 
Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Hyams, a 
Hollywood columnist, captures the spirit 
of America's film capital at a time when 
actors were regarded as royalty. 1975. 



Bogey's Baby RC 12482 

by Howard Greenberger 

narrated by Ralph Bell 

2 cassettes 

Biography of Lauren "Betty" Bacall, 

her career from modeling to Hollywood, 

her marriage to Humphrey Bogart, and 

their friendship with such famous stars 

as Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, and 

Frank Sinatra. Some strong language. 

1976. 



A Book RC 10301 

by Desi Arnaz 

narrated by Desi Arnaz and Peter Case 
3 cassettes 

The entertainer-producer exuberantly 
relates his rise from poverty to show 
business success. He describes his private 
life, his marriage to the popular come- 
dienne Lucille Ball, and his love for his 
family. Some strong language. 1976. 



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Dear Boris: The Life of William Henry 
Pratt A.K.A. Boris Karloff 
RC 12731 

by Cynthia Lindsay 
narrated by Eda Seasongood 

1 cassette 

Warmly affectionate biography by an 
old family friend stresses Karloff 's 
likable personality in contrast to his 
screen image of the horrifying monster. 
Some strong language. 1975. 

Dear Me RC 11939 

by Peter Ustinov 

narrated by Patrick Horgan 

3 cassettes 

Autobiography chock-full of colorful 

characters, droll situations, and famous 

theatrical personalities. Some strong 

language. Bestseller 1977. 

Errol Flynn: A Memoir RC 12389 

by Earl Conrad 

narrated by Richard Wulf 

2 cassettes 

Portrait drawn from a relationship that 
developed between the author and Flynn 
just before the actor's death explores the 
enigmatic character of the complex star. 
Describes his flamboyant life-style and 
bizarre behavior in detail. Some strong 
language and some explicit descriptions 
of sex. 1978. 

Everything but Money RC 9934 

by Sam Levenson 

narrated by Leon Janney 

2 cassettes 

The author's humorous reminiscences 

about his childhood in an East Harlem 

tenement with his immigrant parents, six 



Actors and Actresses 
brothers, and one sister. Although he is 
now an entertainer, he has also been an 
educator and he offers opinions about 
the value of discipline, respect, and 
responsibility in bringing up children. 
1966. 

The Fonz: The Henry Winkler Story 

RC 12574 

by Charles E. Pike 

narrated by George Backman 

1 cassette 

Success story of the actor who became a 

favorite TV tough guy. For junior and 

senior high readers. 1976. 



Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man 
behind the Myth RC 13242 

by Arthur Marx 
narrated by Ray Hagen 
3 cassettes 

A portrait of the volatile and complex 
movie magnate Samuel Goldwyn, who 
without any formal education rose from 
penniless immigrant to multimillionaire 
at his death at ninety-one. His life is the 
story of Hollywood and the motion pic- 
ture industry. Some strong language. 
1976. 



Great Times, Good Times: The Odyssey 
of Maurice Barrymore RC 12776 
by James Kotsilibas-Davis 
narrated by Guy Sorel 
5 cassettes 

Portrait of the life and times of the 
dashing patriarch of the legendary 
family of actors. Some strong 
language. 1977. 



Actors and Actresses 
Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons 
and Flesh Peddlers, Movie-Makers and 
Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, 
Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers, 
and Sex Symbols RC 13627 
by Garson Kanin 
narrated by Jack Robinson 
3 cassettes 

Explores the inside workings of the 
movie industry with glimpses of such 
stars as Carole Lombard, John Barry- 
more, Greta Garbo, and Marilyn 
Monroe. Some strong language. 1974. 

Intermission: A True Story 
RC 10573 

by Anne Baxter 
narrated by Anne Chodoff 
3 cassettes 

Academy Award-winning actress Anne 
Baxter writes about the greatest 
challenge of her life: moving, at the 
height of her career, to the harsh out- 
back of Australia to be with the man 
she loved. 1976. 

Jack Benny RC 11448 

by Mary Livingstone Benny and Milliard 
Marks with Marcia Borie 
narrated by Diane Eilenberg 
2 cassettes 

Biography of the beloved comedian in 
which such stars as Edgar Bergen, 
Johnny Carson, and George Burns recall 
his many kindnesses and memorable 
comic performances. Covers his 
vaudeville beginnings and Carnegie Hall 
appearances as a violinist. Includes 
nostalgic snatches of radio and TV 
scripts. Some strong language. 1978. 



John Huston, Maker of Magic 
RC 12595 

by Stuart M. Kaminsky 
narrated by Ray Hagen 
2 cassettes 

Study of the mercurial, multi-talented, 
enigmatic film director who is known as 
much for his roisterous life-style as he is 
for such acclaimed movies as Treasure 
of Sierra Madre, The Red Badge of 
Courage, and The African Queen. 1978. 

Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure 
RC 11923 

by Joyce Grenfell 

narrated by Meg Wynn-Owen 

2 cassettes 

Autobiography of the British humorist, 

niece of Lady Astor, whose careers as 

satirist, journalist, radio star, and 

concert-hall singer began in the 1930s. 

Her family friends included Henry 

James, Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, 

and Stephen Potter. 1976. 

Ladies and Gentlemen Lenny 
Bruce RC 8604 

by Albert Goldman 

narrated by Ray Hagen 

10 cassettes 

A candid biography of the comedian's 

life with emphasis on his drug and 

obscenity arrests, his sexual exploits, and 

the tragedy of his daily existence. Strong 

language and explicit descriptions of sex. 

1974. 



Lemmon: A Biography 

by Don Widener 
narrated by Gordon Hunt 
2 cassettes 



RC 10296 



10 



A biography of the award-winning actor 
Jack Lemmon. His exuberant life reads 
like a script from one of his tragicomic 
films, beginning with his birth in a 
hospital elevator between floors. Some 
strong language. 1975. 

Long Live the King: A Biography of 
Clark Gable RC 10422 

by Lyn Tornabene 
narrated by Bob Askey 
3 cassettes 

Portrait of the movie star who for many 
was the epitome of the masculine ideal. 
Captures the actor's romances and 
defeats, and penetrates the legend that 
surrounded this complex and fascinating 
man. Some strong language. 1976. 

Love, Laughter, and Tears: My 
Hollywood Story RC 11755 
by Adela Rogers St. Johns 
narrated by Yvonne Fair Tessler 
3 cassettes 

Hearst reporter now in her eighties and 
self-styled "Mother Confessor" to 
Hollywood stars of the twenties and thir- 
ties relates many stories of the rich, 
famous, and misunderstood. Among 
those she includes are Pickford, Fair- 
banks, Chaplin, Arbuckle, Valentino, 
Swanson, Garbo, and Harlow. 1978. 

Marlene: The Life of Marlene Dietrich 
RC 12609 

by Charles Higham 

narrated by Mitzi Friedlander 

2 cassettes 

Admiring portrait of the German actress 

who became a symbol of glamour in a 

fifty-some-year career. Begins with her 



Actors and Actresses 
childhood and includes anecdotes about 
such famous international lovers and 
friends as Jean Gabin, Erich Marie 
Remarque, and Noel Coward. 1977. 

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks: 
The Most Popular Couple the World Has 
Ever Known RC 11129 

by Booton Herndon 
narrated by Dick Brehm 
2 cassettes 

Private, inside story of the relationship 
between the king and queen of silent 
films whose off-screen romance paral- 
leled their movie scripts. 1977. 

Mommie Dearest RC 12943 

by Christina Crawford 
narrated by Yvonne Fair Tessler 
2 cassettes 

The oldest adopted child of movie queen 
Joan Crawford, who died in 1977, tells a 
shocking story of what it was like living 
with her mother. Revelations of punish- 
ment, humiliation, and exploitation are 
described by the daughter of the famous 
star who demanded that her children 
refer to her as "Mommie dearest." 
Some strong language and some explicit 
descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1978. 

Monty: A Biography of Montgomery 
Clift RC 12331 

by Robert Laguardia 
narrated by John Stratton 
2 cassettes 

Sympathetic portrayal of the sensitive, 
handsome actor who became a respected 
star in his thirties and died at forty-five, 
a broken alcoholic. To get at the truth 
of Clift's self-destructive drive, the 



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Actors and Actresses 
author interviewed his friends and fellow 
performers, among them Marlon Bran- 
do, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Jones. 
Some strong language. 1977. 

My Autobiography RC 8867 

by Charles Chaplin 
narrated by Jack Hrkach 
6 cassettes 

The beloved ' 'Little Tramp" of silent 
pictures, considered the greatest come- 
dian of this century, covers every aspect 
of his life, his indigent childhood, and 
the public censure of later years as well 
as his success and popularity. 1964. 

My Heart Belongs RC 9518 

by Mary Martin 
narrated by Susan Appleton 
2 cassettes 

Light-hearted autobiography of the 
popular musical comedy star best known 
for stage roles in Peter Pan, South 
Pacific, and The Sound of Music. Mar- 
tin recalls her theatrical career and 
friendships with Ezio Pinza, Richard 
Rodger s, and Oscar Hammer stein. 1976. 

My Side: The Autobiography of Ruth 
Gordon RC 10331 

by Ruth Gordon 
narrated by Patricia Beaudry 
4 cassettes 

Freewheeling memoirs of a successful 
actress-author whose career spans most 
of the twentieth centry. Literate portrait 
of the American theatre with sketches of 
such fellow-actors as Pauline Lord, Ray- 
mond Massey, Michael Redgrave, and 
Edith Evans. Some strong language. 
1976. 



Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be 
RC 12248 

by Simone Signoret 
narrated by Jane White 
3 cassettes 

Frank and humorous memoir of the 
noted foreign film star who was born 
in Wiesbaden to a Polish- Jewish father 
and a Parisian mother. She evokes her 
childhood, her education, her begin- 
nings as an actress, her life with the 
popular French-Italian singer and actor 
Yves Montand, and her professional 
successes and failures. Some strong 
language. 1978. 

Rex: An Autobiography RC 12681 

by Rex Harrison 

narrated by Andy Chappell 

2 cassettes 

Memoir by the British stage and screen 
actor that briefly touches upon his ear- 
ly years and concentrates on his acting 
career. He discreetly tells of his mar- 
riages and relates some mild gossip 
about other stars. 1975. 

Vivien Leigh: A Biography 
RC 10865 

by Anne Edwards 

narrated by Elizabeth Swain 

3 cassettes 

Intimate portrait of the dazzling and 
talented British actress best known for 
her role of Scarlett in Gone with the 
Wind. Reveals the dual personality of a 
much admired woman who suffered 
from manic-depression and died of 
tuberculosis. Some strong language. 
1977. 



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Walt Disney: An American Original 
RC 11548 

by Bob Thomas 

narrated by Hal Tenny 

3 cassettes 

Biography of the great animator and 

entrepreneur based on interviews with 

family and friends and on private 

papers and letters. Recounts Disney's 

life from his austere boyhood in Kansas 

City through his long-lived success. 

1976. 

When I Was Young RC 10895 

by Raymond Massey 
narrated by Barry Zevan 

2 cassettes 

The accomplished character actor traces 
his life from an affluent childhood in 
Toronto to his decision in 1921 to seek 
a career on the London stage. The se- 
cond volume, when published, will 
cover exciting personalities of the 
theater and movie world. Some strong 
language. 1976. 

Will Rogers: A Biography RC 9823 

by Donald Day 

narrated by Livingston Gilbert 

3 cassettes 

Biography of the home-spun American 
philosopher and humorist who com- 
mented wittily and irreverently on the 
American scene and on politicians from 
the President on down. 1962. 

You Can Get There from Here 
RC 9099 

by Shirley MacLaine 
narrated by Barbara Caruso 
3 cassettes 



Actors and Actresses 
Intimate account of Shirley MacLaine 's 
personal life between 1970 and 1974. She 
looks back on her disastrous TV series, 
barnstorming the U.S. for McGovern, 
and her profound experiences on an ex- 
tended tour of the People's Republic of 
China that led to self-rediscovery. Strong 
language. 1975. 



Actors and 

Actresses 



Braille 



Bring on the Empty Horses BR 2985 

by David Niven 
5 volumes 

Collection of descriptions, impressions, 
and anecdotes about Hollywood from 
the wild thirties to the early days of 
television. The actor provides such hap- 
py reminiscences as boating with Errol 
Flynn, playing chess with Humphrey 
Bogart, and fishing with Clark Gable. 
Strong language. Bestseller 1976. 



Cagney by Cagney BR 3104 
by James Cagney 
2 volumes 

Informal reminiscences from the award- 
winning, feisty, Irish- American actor 
who was born to a musical Manhattan 
family at the turn of the century. 
Describes his struggle for stardom and 
some of the "wonderful people" he met 
along the way. Includes some of his 
poems. 1976. 



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Actors and Actresses 
The Comedy World of Stan Laurel 
BR 2713 
by John McCabe 
2 volumes 

Recollections of the Laurel and Hardy 
comedy team, based on personal papers 
and interviews. Includes sketches of 
stage performances written by the come- 
dians. 1974. 

Gable and Lombard BR 2728 
by Warren G. Harris 
2 volumes 

Frank story of the love affairs, mar- 
riage, and careers of this movie-star cou- 
ple. Sharp wit, practical jokes and ex- 
travagant Hollywood background make 
this biography read much like a movie 
script of their time, the thirties. Explicit 
descriptions of sex. 1974. 



Kate: The Life of Katherine Hepburn 
BR 2937 

by Charles Higham 
2 volumes 

Authorized biography highlighting the 
determination and sense of humor of the 
elusive New England Yankee whose act- 
ing career began in 1932. Strong 
language. 1975. 



The Moon's a Balloon: 
Reminiscences BR 2221 

by David Niven 

5 volumes 

These memoirs of the popular English 

actor tell of his expulsion from school 

for a practical joke and his progress to 

Sandhurst and the Mayfair set before 

entering acting. Bestseller 1971. 



Goon for Lunch BR 3149 

by Harry Secombe 

1 volume 

Amiable memories of growing up in 

Wales, funny and painful experiences 

with the Army in Africa and in Italy, 

and anecdotes of the author's present 

life in show business. 1975. 



Heartland BR 3276 
by Mort Sahl 
2 volumes 

Political satirist of the fifties and sixties 
assesses the moral decline of America 
and relates his long involvement with the 
investigation into President Kennedy's 
assassination, which Sahl believes 
destroyed his career. 1976. 



Mother Goddam: The Story of the Career 
of Bette Davis BR 2751 
by Whitney Stine 
4 volumes 

Famous Hollywood actress offers a run- 
ning commentary of personal sidelights 
to the movies in which she appeared. In- 
cludes a filmography. 1974. 

My Heart Belongs BR 3177 
by Mary Martin 
3 volumes 

Light-hearted autobiography of the 
popular musical comedy star best known 
for her stage roles in Peter Pan, South 
Pacific, and The Sound of Music. Mar- 
tin recalls her theatrical career and 
friendships with Ezio Pinza, Richard 
Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein. 1976. 



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Artists 



Discs 



Grandma Moses: My Life's History 
RD8517 

by Anna Mary Robertson Moses, 
edited by Otto Kallir 
narrated by Mary Jane Higby 
2 discs 

Autobiography of the. American painter 
who began, at the age of eighty, painting 
farm scenes remembered from 
childhood. A descendant of pioneers, 
she recalls with warmth and depth her 
life as a wife and mother. 1952. 

Whistler: A Biography RD 7977 
by Stanley Weintraub 
narrated by Lester Rawlins 
7 discs 

Life of James Whistler, a controversial 
American eccentric who grew up in 
Russia, lived a Bohemian life in France, 
finally settled in England, and became 
one of the most influential painters of 
the nineteenth century. 1974. 



Artists 



Cassettes 



Chagall RC 10054 

by Jean Paul Crespelle, 

translated by Benita Eisler 

narrated by Guy Sorel 

2 cassettes 

Account of the life and work of the 

celebrated Russian-born Jewish artist 

Marc Chagall, whose joyous and creative 

talents have influenced the development 

of twentieth-century art. 1970. 



Artists 
Clare Sheridan RC 11591 

by Anita Leslie 
narrated by Dale Carter 

2 cassettes 

Account of an inspired English artist. 
Beautiful and courageous Clare Sheridan 
pursued a career that covered the world 
and touched the lives of such figures as 
Lenin, Mussolini, Charlie Chaplin, and 
Gandhi. 1977. 

Mary Cassatt RC 9842 

by Nancy Hale 

narrated by Suzanne Toren 

3 cassettes 

Covers the life of a major American 
painter from her beginnings as a rich 
Philadelphian in the mid-nineteenth cen- 
tury to her involvement with the work of 
Degas, the influence of the Japanese, 
and the impact of the ancient Egyptian 
art. 1975. 

Paintbox on the Frontier: The Life and 
Times of George Caleb Bingham 
RC 12769 

by Alberta Wilson Constant 
narrated by Robert Simpson 

2 cassettes 

Picture of a bygone era and a portrait of 
the self-taught nineteenth-century 
American painter who depicted 
rivermen, trappers, traders, Indians, and 
pioneers exactly as he saw them. For 
junior and senior high readers. 1974. 

Renoir, My Father RC 10474 

by Jean Renoir, translated by Randolph 
and Dorothy Weaver 
narrated by Guy Sorel 

3 cassettes 



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Artists 

Portrait of the great French master of 
impressionism as recorded in fond 
memories by his son, a famous film 
director. 1962. 

The World of Cezanne, 1839-1906 

RC 12730 

by Richard W. Murphy 

narrated by Flo Gibson 

1 cassette 

Biography of the talented French painter 

whose memorable, colorful landscapes 

captured the imagination of the critics 

and the public. 1968. 

The World of Delacroix: 1798-1863 

RC 12774 

by Tom Prideaux 

narrated by Barbara Cire 

1 cassette 

Reveals the paradoxical personality of 
the talented French artist and interprets 
his art. 1966. 

The World of Matisse, 1869-1954 
RC 11962 

by John Russell 
narrated by Eric Zwemer 

2 cassettes 

Traces the life and work of Henri 
Matisse, the French artist known for his 
love of rich color and bold decorative 
patterns. 1969. 



Artists 



Braille 



An Artist and the Pope 

by Curtis Bill Pepper 
3 volumes 



BR 1033 



Angelo Roncalli, son of a tenant farmer 
near Bergamo, Italy, became Pope John 
XXIII, and Giacomo Manzu, son of a 
shoemaker from Bergamo, became a 
great sculptor. This double biography 
describes the relationship between these 
two townsmen, the Pope and the Com- 
munist artist who had lost his faith. 
1968. 

Grandma Moses: My Life's History 
BR121 

by Anna Mary Robertson Moses, 
edited by Otto Kallir 
1 volume 

Autobiography of the American painter 
who began, at the age of eighty, painting 
farm scenes remembered from 
childhood. A descendant of pioneers, 
she recalls with warmth and depth her 
life as a wife and mother. 1952. 

Life with Picasso BR 215 

by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake 
5 volumes 

Picasso's mistress writes of their ten-year 
love affair, during which time she bore 
him two children. The book covers the 
years 1943-53, and discusses Picasso's 
personality, philosophy, and art. 1965. 

Marc Chagall BR 909 
by Howard Greenfeld 
1 volume 

A biography covering the Russian Jewish 
painter's childhood, his marriage, and 
his ability to hold fast to dreams under 
difficult conditions in Russia, France, 
and Germany. Concludes with a section 
on Chagall's works in America. For 
junior and senior high readers. 1967. 



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Authors 



Discs 



Albert Payson Terhune: The Master of 
Sunnybank RD 6481 

by Kurt Unkelback 
narrated by Paul Clark 
2 discs 

Biography of the popular writer of 
animal stories set in Sunnybank, New 
Jersey. He regarded himself a failure as 
a serious writer, despite his fame and 
success as creator of the popular novel 
Lad: A Dog (TB 4486). 1972. 

An Autobiography RD 10842 

by Agatha Christie 
narrated by Jill Ferris 
12 flexible discs 

Account of the celebrated mystery 
writer's happy Victorian and Edwardian 
childhood in a loving family with an 
American father. Explains how she 
created and developed her mystery pro- 
tagonists. Describes her unhappy first 
marriage and her long, happy second 
marriage. 1977. 

Ben Jonson of Westminster 

RD6214 

by Marchette Gaylord Chute 

narrated by Donald Madden 

4 discs 

Biography of Ben Jonson, Elizabethan 

playwright, poet laureate of England, 

and friend of Shakespeare. 1953. 

The Clocks of Columbus: The Literary 
Career of James Thurber RD 6653 

by Charles Holmes 
narrated by Alan Hewitt 
6 discs 



Authors 

Literary biography of a mid-twentieth- 
century American humorist. Describes 
his Ohio boyhood, cultural initiation in 
Paris, newspaper work, writing for the 
New Yorker, and struggle with blindness 
that began at the apex of his career. 
1972. 

Dostoevsky: Reminiscences RD 9371 

by Anna Dostoevsky, translated and 
edited by Beatrice Stillman 
narrated by Sharon Dennis 
7 discs 

The second wife of the great man of 
Russian letters gives a thorough 
firsthand account of his life and 
character from the time of their first 
meeting in 1866 to his death in 188L 
1975. 

Dylan Thomas RD 11209 

by Paul Ferris 
narrated by Alan Haines 
6 discs 

Revealing portrait of the Welsh poet that 
unravels some of the myths Thomas 
wove about himself. The author suggests 
that Thomas was a tormented man who, 
obsessed with his role of poet, became 
his own worst enemy. Some strong 
language. 1977. 

Edgar Allan Poe, Visitor from the Night 

of Time RD 7094 

by Philip Van Doren Stern 

narrated by Paul Clark 

2 discs 

A biography of the American author 

who was plagued by tragedy and who 

died a failure with his talent 

unacknowledged. For junior and senior 

high readers. 1973. 



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George Sand: A Biography RD 9073 

by Curtis Cate 

narrated by Mitzi Friedlander 
11 discs 

A detailed biography culled largely from 
the correspondence of Aurore Dupin, 
better known as George Sand, one of 
the most prolific and original writers of 
nineteenth-century France. Because her 
life was as controversial as her fiction, 
she is considered a forerunner of 
women's liberation, and the muse of the 
1848 Revolution in France. 1975. 

Harvest of Yesterdays RD 10178 

by Gladys Taber 

narrated by Virginia Cromer 

2 discs 

Reminiscences of the author's life before 
Stillmeadow, the seventeenth-century 
Connecticut farmhouse she popularized 
in many of her writings. Taber re-creates 
her childhood in the Southwest and 
Mexico, small-town life in Wisconsin, 
and her marriage to music instructor 
Frank Taber. 1976. 

The Joy of the Snow RD 8508 

by Elizabeth Goudge 

narrated by Carmen Mathews 

4 discs 

Autobiographical account of the 

author's long journey from a sheltered 

Edwardian childhood to international 

acclaim. 1974. 

Life with Lindsay and Crouse 
RD 13147 

by Cornelia Otis Skinner 
narrated by Catherine Byers 

3 discs 



Famous actress offers a portrait of one 
of the most engaging and successful 
playwright teams in the history of the 
American theater. Lindsay and Crouse 
collaborated on such hits as Life with 
Father, State of the Union, and The 
Sound of Music. 1916. 

Louisa May: A Modern Biography of 
Louisa May Alcott RD 11709 

by Martha Saxton 

narrated by Richard Norman 

6 discs 

The author of Little Women is seen as 

an ambivalent rebel and irreverent 

feminist. Regarded as "her father's 

daughter," she eventually saved the 

family from starvation by writing while 

he became a self-styled philosopher who 

did not believe in working for wages. 

1977. 

The Man Who Wrote Dracuia: A 
Biography of Bram Stoker RD 11261 

by Daniel Parson 
narrated by Randy Atcher 
4 discs 

Portrait of the sensitive, tormented per- 
sonality who found his expression in 
gothic novels, of which Dracuia (TB 
4092) is the most famous. 1975. 

Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul 
Laurence Dunhar RD 6040 

by Addison Gayle 
narrated by Paul Clark 
2 discs 

A biography of the black American poet 
whose brief life was filled with frustra- 
tion and despair. Dunbar's serious 
poems were largely ignored while his 



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us dialect verses, which give a 
luxe of black life, brought him 
id popularity. For junior and 
igh readers. 1971. 

snto RD 6936 

in. Hellman 

I ty Eugenia Rawls 

gh.t Lillian Hellman's personal 
:en.ces about friends, relatives, 
tits. Bestseller 1973. 

1 Geography: Almost an 
>graphy RD 10257 
.beth Coatsworth 
I ty Dale Carter 

ns from a half-century of 
taken from the author's private 
i. Spans an eventful girlhood in 
around the turn of the century, 
riage to naturalist Henry Beston, 
x life at Chimney Farm in Maine 
ley settled to rear their children 
vrite books. 1976. 

ality of Hurt: 

totiiography of Chester Himes 

7 

iter Himes 

1 "by Fred Morsell 

cessful novelist tells of the 
rie has felt as a black American. 
Us his early years in Missouri, a 
jar jail term for armed robbery, 
atlon as a writer, and his wander- 
Criicago, Los Angeles, New 
nd Europe. Explicit descriptions 
1972. 



Rex Stout: A Biography RD 11608 

by John McAleer 
narrated by Burt Blackwell 
10 discs 

Comprehensive portrait captures the 
multifaceted personality of the creator of 
detective Nero Wolfe. Explores parallels 
between Stout's life and the key figures 
in the Wolfe books and points out that 
even as Stout entertains with a detective 
story, he attacks a wide assortment of 
social evils. Some strong language. 1977. 

Sir Walter Scott: His Life and 
Personality RD 6224 

by Hesketh Pearson 
narrated by Noel Leslie 
4 discs 

A biography of the Scottish writer of 
poetry and prose based on diaries and 
letters. The celebrated author of Ivanhoe 
(TB 2661) and other novels is pictured as 
a warm compassionate personality with a 
genius for friendship. 1954. 

Some Are Born Great RD 7980 
by Adela Rogers St. Johns 
narrated by Ilka Chase 
4 discs 

Describes the great women the reporter 
has known during her fifty-year career. 
Includes sketches of Willa Gather, Carry 
Nation, Amelia Earhart, and Rachel 
Carson. 1974. 

The Strength of the Hills RD 11109 

by Elswyth Thane 

narrated by Jams Gray 

3 discs 

Against the background of World War 

II, this popular novelist tells about 



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reclaiming a neglected farm in the 
southern Vermont hills with the en- 
couragement of her naturalist husband, 
Dr. William Beebe. 1976. 

A Time to Write RD 6565 

by Loula Grace Erdman 

narrated by Janis Gray 

3 discs 

An American novelist and writer-in- 

residence at West Texas State University 

tells of her experiences as a writer and of 

the struggles and rewards of a creative 

career. 1969. 

Virginia Woolf : A Biography 

RB6243 
by Quentin Bell 
narrated by Alan Haines 
8 discs 

A record of the English author's per- 
sonal life by her nephew, who discusses 
her childhood, adolescence, introduction 
into London society, marriage, and the 
Bloomsbury years. 1972. 

The Woman Said Yes.' Encounters with 
Life and Death Memoirs RD 9354 
by Jessamyn West 
narrated by Lois Smith 
2 discs 

The author and playwright's account of 
the influence of her exuberant Quaker 
mother upon her and her sister in the 
face of tragedy. A portrait of dignity, 
determination, and courage. 1976. 



Years Away from Home 
by Gladys Carroll 
narrated by Janis Gray 
5 discs 



KD6064 



The author reminisces about her 
childhood in Maine, her years at Bates 
College, and her happy marriage to 
Herbert Carroll. Determined at an early 
age to make a career of writing, Mrs. 
Carroll recalls her experiences learning 
her craft. 1972. 



Authors 



Cassettes 



Along Came the Witch: A Journal in the 
1960s RC 9950 
by Helen Bevington 
narrated by Suzanne Toren 
2 cassettes 

Memoir that includes reminiscences of 
the author's childhood, family, and 
teaching experiences as well as firsthand 
impressions of writers and other 
notables. Sprinkled throughout are im- 
promptu verses that celebrate a variety 
of occasions. 1976. 

American Hunger RC 10660 

by Richard Wright 

narrated by Michael Cornelison 

1 cassette 

Autobiographical continuation of Black 

Boy covering Wright's struggle to make 

his way in Chicago and New York. It 

traces his experience with poverty and 

racism, his development as a writer, and 

his conversion to and estrangement from 

the Communist Party. Some strong 

language. 1977. 



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I Bennett: A Biography 

55 

jrgaret Drabble 
sd by Alexander Scourby 
?ttes 

iglish novelist draws on the letters 
emories of Bennett's contem- 
ns to convey the writer's struggle 
is craft. Re-creates the personality 

shy, brilliant man with a terrible 
ier. Also describes his last and 
nt love, and his friendships with 

Colette, and Wells. 1974. 

itobiography RC 10842 

atha Christie 

sd by Jill Ferris 

jttes 

nt of the celebrated mystery 

s happy Victorian and Edwardian 

ood in a loving family with an 

can father. Explains how she 

I and developed her mystery pro- 

sts. Describes her unhappy first 

ige and her long, happy second 

tge. 1977. 

RC 11931 

dre Maurois, 

ited by Hamish Miles 

^d by Guy Sorel 

ittes 

phy of the English romantic poet 

ss his life and personality with em- 

on his travels, his family, and his 
nship with his half-sister, Augusta 

1930. 

e Meetings RC 12743 

liam Saroyan 

id by George Marchmont 

itte 



Authors 

Recollections of "chance meetings" 
from the author's colorful past include 
an Armenian cabinet-maker who wrote 
poetry, a pregnant woman he met while 
traveling, and a retired wrestler who 
picked grapes with him. Some strong 
language. 1978. 

Charles Dickens RC 12773 
by G. K. Chesterton 
narrated by Earl Keyes 
2 cassettes 

First published in 1906, Chesterton's 
vigorous work on Dickens provides pro- 
found insight into a writer of genius. 
1965. 

Edith Wharton: A Biography 
RC 9775 

by R. W. B. Lewis 
narrated by Hal Tenny 
6 cassettes 

Richly detailed portrait of a renowned 
American novelist. Based on personal 
letters, manuscripts, and diaries to which 
he had exclusive access, Lewis explores 
Wharton 's relationships among the 
gifted, affluent, and powerful. Some ex- 
plicit descriptions of sex. 1975. 



Farther Off from Heaven RC 10868 
by William Humphrey 
narrated by Gordon Gould 
2 cassettes 

Portrait of the novelist's childhood in 
the cotton country of east Texas in the 
thirties. Humphrey recaptures the joys 
and pains of a boy's life in a small 
town. 1977. 



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Autnors 

Finding My Father: One Man's Search 

for Identity RC 10537 

by Rod McKuen 

narrated by John Stratton 

I cassette 

The popular poet who was born in a 

Salvation Army home for unwed 

mothers in Oakland, California, in 1933 

offers a candid memoir of his search for 

the unknown man who fathered him. 

McKuen intersperses poetry with his 

prose. 1976. 



The Life and Legend of Gene 
Fowler RC 12603 

by H. Allen Smith 
narrated by Gordon Heath 
2 cassettes 

Biography of a colorful American 
reporter who became a novelist, screen- 
writer, and biographer. Captures the 
audacious spirit of his joyfulness and ir- 
reverence. Portrait of a lovable, hand- 
some, gutsy character. Some strong 
language. 1977. 



Hearts and Minds: The Common 
Journey of Simone de Beauvoir and 
Jean-Paul Sartre RC 11967 

by Axel Madsen 
narrated by Flo Gibson 
3 cassettes 

Double biography of the French authors 
whose lifelong commitment to the in- 
tellectual left has kept them in the 
forefront of European philosophy, jour- 
nalism, fiction, theater, and politics. 
1977. 



The Life of Charlotte Bronte 
RC 10284 

by Elizabeth Gaskell 
narrated by Patricia LeClercq 
4 cassettes 

First published in 1857, this work is 
regarded as a classic of English 
biography as well as the portrait of the 
remarkable author of Jane Eyre 
(CB 357). 1974. 



Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal 
Histories of Science-Fiction Writers 
RC 12295 

edited by Brian W. Aldiss and Harry 
Harrison 

narrated by Richard Wulf 
2 cassettes 

Autobiographical sketches by six well- 
known writers of science fiction Alfred 
Bester, Damon Knight, Frederick Pohl, 
Robert Silverberg, Harry Harrison, and 
Brian W. Aldiss. For high school and 
adult readers. 1975. 



The Life of Samuel Johnson 

RC 12304 

by James Boswell 

narrated by Alan Hewitt 

12 cassettes 

Famous biography first published in 

1791 gives an intimate, detailed account 

of the English lexicographer's life, 

character, and personality. Portrays the 

eighteenth-century society in which 

Johnson lived. Contains conversation, 

gossip, and bits of correspondence, all 

meticulously recorded by the author. 

1976. 



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Malcolm Lowry: A Biography 

RC 9787 

by Douglas Day 

narrated by Guy Sorel 

4 cassettes 

Sympathetic account of the chaotic and 

tragic life of a gifted novelist who died 

at the age of forty-eight. National Book 

Award 1974. 1973. 

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, A 
Biography RC 11096 

by Justin Kaplan 
narrated by Gordon Gould 
4 cassettes 

Using letters and other unpublished 
papers, the author demonstrates a duali- 
ty of identity, outlook, and motivation 
between the ambitious, acquisitive 
Clemens and the writer, Mark Twain. 
The America of the late nineteenth cen- 
tury is made real by inclusion of a 
multitude of details about people, 
places, and incidents. 1966. 

Myself When Young: The Shaping of a 
Writer RC 11302 

by Daphne du Maurier 

narrated by Pat Gilbert-Read 

2 cassettes 

Popular and highly praised British 

author offers the disarming story of her 

first twenty-two years in London and 

Paris. 1977. 

A New Kind of Country RC 12702 

by Dorothy Gilman 

narrated by Dale Carter 

1 cassette 

The popular novelist, creator of the Mrs. 

Polifax series, chooses a new lifestyle 



Authors 

when her younger son departs for col- 
lege. She moves from a suburban New 
Jersey apartment to a house in a tiny 
village on the coast of Nova Scotia, 
seeking peace and solitude. Her account 
is part reflection and part reminiscence. 
1978. 

Papa: A Personal Memoir RC 11159 

by Gregory H. Hemingway 
narrated by Gary Heilsberg 
1 cassette 

With love and anger, the younger son of 
Ernest Hemingway portrays his relation- 
ship with his famous father. He records 
Hemingway's personal achievements and 
failures, his rages, his courtship of 
"beautiful people," the loss of his 
talent, and his descent into madness. 
Some strong language. 1976. 

Rudyard Kipling RC 13328 

by Lord Frederick Birkenhead 
narrated by Burt Blackwell 

4 cassettes 

Biography commissioned in 1948 when 
the author was given access to the per- 
sonal letters, diaries, and papers of the 
Kipling family. Suppressed for thirty 
years until the death of Kipling's 
daughter, this volume gives an intimate 
view of Kipling's life, work, and 
political convictions. 1978. 

Samuel Johnson RC 12193 

by W. Jackson Bate 
narrated by Patrick Horgan 

5 cassettes 

Analysis of the life and writings of one 
of England's most influential cultural 
figures of the eighteenth century. The 



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author, a Pulitzer Prize winner, reveals 
Johnson essentially as a modern man 
speaking to the modern mind. 1977. 

The Search: A Biography of Leo 
Tolstoy RC 10409 

by Sara Newton Carroll 
narrated by Steve Grad 
1 cassette 

Though he enjoyed a secure childhood 
and a considerable inheritance, Tolstoy's 
restless self-probing isolated him from 
his family and made him a religious and 
social reformer. For high school and 
adult readers. 1973. 

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A 
Biography RC 13395 

by Margaret Lane 
narrated by Flo Gibson 

1 cassette 

Detailed biography of the secretive 
creator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and 
many other nursery masterpieces. In- 
cludes her lonely Victorian childhood, 
struggles for independence, unhappy 
love affair and happy marriage, and the 
accidental influences that developed her 
genius. 1968. 

Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My 
Times RC 10790 

by Studs Terkel 
narrated by Jack Hrkach 

2 cassettes 

Anecdotal, wry autobiography from 
tape-recorded material. Includes conver- 
sations the author had with himself and 
interviews with many famous people. 
Some strong language. 1977. 



Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte 
Bronte RC 9782 
by Margot Peters 
narrated by Ada Brown Mather 
4 cassettes 

Explores the world of the nineteenth- 
century novelist and the friends who 
supported her in a Victorian society that 
was not ready for her radicalism. 
Discusses the characterization of 
Bronte's women characters. 1975. 

Unwritten Memories RC 9206 

by Katia Mann, edited by Elisabeth 
Plessen and Michael Mann, translated by 
Hunter and Hildegarde Hannum 
narrated by Jo Moritz 
2 cassettes 

Thomas Mann's wife of more than fifty 
years recounts with charm and humor 
their life together. Anecdotes involve 
such friends and artists as Mahler, 
Hesse, Chaplin, and Richard Straus. 
Added to Mrs. Mann's memories are 
comments by two Mann children, Erika 
and Golo. 1975. 



Authors 



Braille 



Beginning Again: An Autobiography of 
the Years 1911-1918 BR 1384 
by Leonard Woolf 
3 volumes 

The third volume in this autobiography 
covers the return of the author from 
Ceylon, his many important friendships, 
and his marriage to Virginia Stephen. A 
portrait of British life as it nurtured 
Virginia and Leonard Woolf. 1964. 



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Downhill All the Way: An 
Autobiography of the Years 
1919-1939 BR 1385 
by Leonard Woolf 
3 volumes 

The fourth volume in the author's 
autobiography. Woolf chronicles his 
efforts, in the role of socialist and left- 
wing journalist, to rebuild a world of 
peace and sanity. He also characterizes 
the breakdown of his famous wife 
Virginia, while he gives intimate portraits 
of literary and political figures. 1967. 

Emily Dickinson: Her Letter to the 
World BR 310 

by Polly Longsworth 

1 volume 

Brief poetry selections and a biography 
of the shy nineteenth-century New 
England poetess. For junior and senior 
high readers. 1965. 

Eugene O'Neill BR 677 
by Olivia E. Coolidge 

2 volumes 

A biography of the American playwright 
whose twelve major plays of realism, ex- 
periment, comedy, and autobiography 
were written from 1916 through 1941, 
and whose life was a study of greatness, 
vitality, and sordidness. For junior and 
senior high readers. 1966. 

Family Portrait BR 1342 
by Catherine Bowen 

3 volumes 

The author begins the autobiography 
with her eighteenth-century ancestors in 
Pennsylvania and continues to the pres- 
ent accomplished generation of her own 



family. They include the developer of 
the iron lung, a prominent member of 
the bar, an artist of international reputa- 
tion, and the gifted Mrs. Bowen herself. 
1970. 

Goodbye to All That BR 408 

by Robert Graves 

3 volumes 

At the age of thirty-four, the English 

poet published this autobiography, "with 

much attention to his service with the 

Royal Welsh Fusiliers in World War I. 

1960. 

Growing: An Autobiography of the 
Years 1904-1911 BR 1383 

by Leonard Woolf 

3 volumes 

The British publisher and husband of the 

late Virginia Woolf records seven years 

of his life as a young man in the civil 

service in Ceylon from 1904-1911. 1962. 

Henry David Thoreau: A Critical 
Study BR 67 
by Mark Van Doren 

1 volume 

Examines the personality of the 
nineteenth-century philosopher on the 
basis of his journal. 1943. 

The Journey, Not the Arrival Matters: 
An Autobiography of the Years 
1939-1969 BR 1386 
by Leonard Woolf 

2 volumes 

The first half of this final volume of 
Woolf s autobiography deals with the 
advent and menace of World War II 
and the events leading to his wife's 



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suicide; the second half concerns the 
Hogarth Press and his work as a 
political editor. 1970. 

Langston Hughes: A Biography 
BR 1013 

by Milton Meltzer 

2 volumes 

Biography of the black poet and 
playwright whose themes are based on 
his diverse ethnic and social experiences 
in Harlem and in the many places he 
traveled. For junior and senior high 
readers. 1968. 

Live or Die BR 1180 

by Anne Sexton 

1 volume 

Collection of autobiographical poems 

written over a four-year period, many of 

them dealing with the author's psychic 

and physical sufferings. Pulitzer Prize. 

1966. 

The Marble Foot: An Autobiography, 
1905-1938 BR 3578 

by Peter Quennell 

3 volumes 

Probing reminiscences of the author's 
personal and literary world. Includes 
frank sketches of his eccentric parents 
and glimpses of his famous friends 
Evelyn Waugh, Arthur Waley, and Cyril 
Connolly. 1976. 

Mark Twain BR 531 

by Edwin Gordon 

1 volume 

This narrative, which incorporates many 

quotations from Mark Twain's writings, 

describes his apprenticeship as a typeset- 



ter, his days as a river pilot and a miner, 
and his writing success. For junior and 
senior high readers. 1966. 

Mark Twain and His World 
BR 2748 

by Justin Kaplan 
2 volumes 

Biography emphasizing Twain's form- 
ative years. Includes analysis of the 
author's work and views of the world. 
1974. 



Memoirs BR 2409 

by William Butler Yeats, 
edited by Denis Donoghue 
5 volumes 

This volume is primarily confessional 
and contains Yeats's Journal Auto- 
biography begun in 1915. 1972. 

Monsieur Proust BR 3325 

by Celeste Albaret, 
edited by Georges Belmont, 
translated by Barbara Bray 
3 volumes 

Glimpse into the world of the French 
writer by his housekeeper and con- 
fidante, who shared his reclusive ex- 
istence. 1976. 



My Son's Father: A Poet's 
Autobiography BR 1179 

by Dom F. Moraes 
3 volumes 

A young English poet tells of his 
childhood in India, student days at Ox- 
ford, life in London's Bohemia, and of 
his awakening as a poet and man. 1969. 



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The Names: A Memoir BR 3454 
by N. Scott Momaday 

2 volumes 

Recollections of the author's childhood 
in the Southwest with imagined and 
actual stories of his Kiowa Indian 
ancestors. 1976. 

Smart Aleck: The Wit, World, and Life 
of Alexander Woollcott BR 3474 
by Howard Teichmann 

3 volumes 

Biography of the charismatic personality 
who was immortalized as Sheridan 
Whiteside in The Man Who Came to 
Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. 
Kaufman. Woollcott was a serious critic 
with a devastating wit who helped create 
literary and theatrical standards. Some 
strong language. 1976. 

A Sort of Life BR 1777 
by Graham Greene 
2 volumes 

The British novelist describes his sen- 
sitivity as a boy and adolescent, educa- 
tion at a public school where his father 
was headmaster, his life at Oxford, his 
conversion to Catholicism, and his 
writing. 1971. 

Sowing: An Autobiography of the Years 
1880-1904 BR 1382 

by Leonard Woolf 
2 volumes 

Volume one of the author's auto- 
biography from his birth into a pros- 
perous and prolific Jewish family, 
through childhood, and into preparatory 
school and Cambridge. There he met 
four or five friends who formed the 



nucleus for the famed Bloomsbury 
literary group. 1960. 

Taken Care Of: An 
Autobiography BR 197 

by Edith Sitwell 
2 pamphlets 

Interpretive reminiscences by a British 
poet. They combine childhood incidents, 
philosophic views, acid comments on 
boors and fools, and strongly expressed 
opinions on artistic and personal integri- 
ty. 1965. 



Dancers 



Discs 



Josephine RD 11415 

by Josephine Baker and Jo Bouillon, 
translated by Mariana Fitzpatrick 
narrated by Jane White 
5 discs 

The first black international star penned 
this autobiography shortly before her 
death. She traces her long career in 
Paris, revealing a shrewd, generous, and 
flamboyant personality. Included are 
several closing chapters by her husband, 
children, sister, and friends. 1977. 



Dancers 



Braille 



Isadora Duncan: The Russian 
Years BR 3509 

by Ilia Ilich Shneider, 
translated by David Magarshack 
2 volumes 



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Editors, Publishers, and Reporters 
Portrait of the unconventional dancer 
who charmed everyone within her reach. 
Covers the celebrated love affair of Dun- 
can and the Russian poet Esenin. 1968. 

Lola Montez BR 1954 

by Amanda Darling 

3 volumes 

A biography of the nineteenth-century 
dancer who reshaped her history by 
blending fact and fiction, believed in 
total equality and independence for 
women, and used her influence to start a 
revolution. 1972. 

Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography 

BR 2850 

by Margot Fonteyn 

4 volumes 

Autobiography of the ballerina from her 
childhood in China to her achievement 
as a famous dancer. She pays tribute to 
her teachers and dancing partners and 
recounts the joys and sorrows of her life 
with her husband, who was paralyzed in 
an assassination attempt. 1975. 



Editors, 

Publishers, 

and Reporters Discs 

At Random: The Reminiscences of 
Bennett Cerf RD 11206 
by Bennett Cerf 
narrated by Alan Hewitt 
4 discs 

Informal recollections by America's well- 
known book publisher who died in 1971. 



Some of the famous people he knew and 
candidly writes about are Moss Hart, 
Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, and James 
A. Michener. 1977. 



The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures 
of a TV Journalist RD 10834 

by Dan Rather 
narrated by Bob Butz 
6 flexible discs 

Rather brings alive the world of tele- 
vision reporting with behind-the-scenes 
stories of newsworthy events and vivid 
portraits of such controversial per- 
sonalities as Lyndon Johnson and 
Richard Nixon. Some strong language. 
1977. 



Clearing the Air RD 11988 

by Daniel Schorr 
narrated by Bradley Bransford 
5 discs 

Former CBS news correspondent ex- 
plains the controversies surrounding his 
career as an investigative reporter and 
his suspension from the network. He 
also addresses the effects of government 
regulation on CBS. 1977. 



Dateline: White House RD 9015 

by Helen Thomas 

narrated by Barbara Henson 

4 discs 

Close-up views of the Kennedy, 

Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidencies. 

Thomas reveals intimate and comic 

details about what she has seen and 

heard on her assignments. 1975. 



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Diaries, 1949-1959 RD 7310 
by Drew Pearson, 
edited by Tyler Abell 
narrated by Guy Sorel 
8 discs 

Included in these memoirs of a famous 
political commentator are accounts of 
ForrestaPs madness, MacArthur's in- 
subordination, Nixon's finances, 
Eisenhower's illnesses, Johnson's 
deals, and the rise and fall of Senator 
McCarthy. 1974. 

Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in Her 
Time RD 7255 
by Marion K. Sanders 
narrated by Dee Victor 
4 discs 

The first lady of American journalism 
and her love affair with life. The 
biography spans a long and controversial 
professional career and a stormy private 
one that included three marriages and a 
succession of attachments to both sexes. 
1973. 

Good Evening Everybody: From Cripple 
Creek to Samarkand RD 10028 
by Lowell Thomas 
narrated by Alan Hewitt 
6 discs 

The popular journalist, explorer, and 
lecturer relates his adventures from 
childhood days in gold-rush Colorado 
through interviews with FDR, Lawrence 
of Arabia, and Mussolini. 1976. 

I Give You My Word RD 8453 
by Francoise Giroud, 
translated by Richard Seaver 
narrated by Suzanne Toren 
4 discs 



Editors, Publishers, and Reporters 
A well-known journalist who was ap- 
pointed France's Minister for Women 
chronicles social, political, and literary 
life in France after World War I. In- 
cludes portraits of literary figures such 
as Gide, Malraux, Camus, and Sartre. 
1974. 

O America, When You and I Were 
Young RD 10529 
by Luigi Barzini 
narrated by Guy Sorel 
4 discs 

Memoir of the Italian-born, American- 
educated journalist. A personal and 
nostalgic account of the years between 
1925, when Barzini first arrived on these 
shores, and 1930, when he returned to 
Italy. 1977. 

So Long Until Tomorrow: From Quaker 
Hill to Katmandu RD 10839 
by Lowell Thomas 
narrated by Bob Askey 
6 flexible discs 

Broadcaster and world adventurer con- 
tinues the travelogue he began in Good 
Evening Everybody (RD 10028). This 
second volume covers from the World 
War II era to 1977. Highlights are his 
trip to Tibet to meet the Dalai Lama, to 
central Siberia, and to the South Pole. 
1977. 

The Start, 1904-1930 RD 10161 
by William L. Shirer 
narrated by Guy Sorel 
8 discs 

Autobiography by the foreign corre- 
spondent, who begins his story in the 
Midwest at the turn of the century and 



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later relates his experiences as a jour- 
nalist in Paris, where he rubbed 
shoulders with Hemingway, Gertrude 
Stein, Lindbergh, Millay, and Joyce. 
1976. 



Stay of Execution: A Sort of 
Memoir RD 6913 

by Stewart Alsop 
narrated by Alan Hewitt 
4 discs 

The political columnist tells of his strug- 
gle with leukemia, his fear, and his 
periods of remission. A cousin of Alice 
Longworth and Eleanor Roosevelt, he 
recounts his meetings with many famous 
people including Winston Churchill and 
Henry Kissinger. 1973. 



Up and Down and Around: A Publisher 
Recollects the Time of Bis Life 
RD6406 

by Cass Canfield 
narrated by Guy Sorel 
3 discs 

The senior editor of Harper and Row 
recalls how he got into the publishing 
business and worked his way up. He 
reminisces about the literary and inter- 
national figures he has met, including 
Eleanor Roosevelt, Thornton Wilder, 
and James Thurber. 1971. 



Editors, 

Publishers, 

and Reporters Cassettes 

The Camera Never Blinks; Adventures 
of a TV Journalist RC 10834 
by Dan Rather 
narrated by Bob Butz 
3 cassettes 

Rather brings alive the world of televi- 
sion reporting with behind-the-scenes 
stories of newsworthy events and vivid 
portraits of such controversial per- 
sonalities as Lyndon Johnson and 
Richard Nixon. Some strong language. 
1977. 

A Canterbury Tale: Experiences and 
Reflections, 1916-1976 RC 11965 
by John Cogley 
narrated by Mary T. Grund 

1 cassette 

Autobiography and memoir of a promi- 
nent American Catholic journalist. 
Cogley tells of his early years with the 
Catholic Worker Movement and as a 
journalist with Today, Commonweal, 
the New York Times, and Center 
magazine. 1976. 

Happy Days, 1880-1892 RC 10681 

by H. L. Mencken 

narrated by Alexander Scourby 

2 cassettes 

Lighthearted account of the author's 
happy boyhood, his introduction to 
music, his genesis as a bookworm, his 
adventures as an athlete, and his first 
steps in theology. 1968. 



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Heathen Days, 1890-1936 RC 10403 

by H. L. Mencken 
narrated by Richard Norman 

2 cassettes 

Series of anecdotes and observations on 
random subjects including the Cuban 
revolution, an audience with the Pope, 
and the Scopes trial. 1943. 

Journey through a Lighted 
Room RC 7706 
by Margaret Parton 
narrated by Patricia Beaudry 
4 cassettes 

A personal account of the experiences 
and adventures of a distinguished 
newspaperwoman and foreign correspon- 
dent. Miss Parton writes of wars and 
riots, famous men and women she has 
interviewed, and of her search for hap- 
piness in her marriages. 1973. 

The Mad World of William M. 

Gaines RC 7934 

by Frank Jacobs 

narrated by Rosemary Schwartzel 

3 cassettes 

Study of the eccentric millionaire 
publisher of Mad magazine, who was 
treated as an idiot by his father before 
he saved the failing comics business. 
1972. 

Maxine Cheshire, Reporter 

RC 12279 

by Maxine Cheshire, with John Greeny a 

narrated by Eugenia Rawls 

2 cassettes 

The award-winning Washington Post 

journalist discusses her life from her 

girlhood in Harlan County, Kentucky, to 



Editors, Publishers, and Reporters 
her powerful position in Washington, 
B.C. Account of the research and per- 
sistence that surround her news reports. 
1978. 

Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 
RC 10375 

by H. L. Mencken 
narrated by Guy Sorel 
2 cassettes 

Journalistic memoir covering the 
author's period of professional im- 
maturity. Demonstrates Mencken's rare 
knowledge of his Baltimore community 
in its more colorful aspects. 1942. 



Editors, 
Publishers, and 
Reporters Braille 

Tell Him What I Heard BR 3435 

by Patricia Hangen 

2 volumes 

Story of the author's topsy-turvy life 
with her foreign correspondent husband 
as they traveled to the Middle East, the 
Congo, and Germany. Her husband was 
captured in Cambodia in 1970, presum- 
ably by Viet Cong troops, and has not 
been heard from since. 1977. 

The Times We Had: Life with William 
Randolph Hearst BR 3514 

by Marion Davies 

3 volumes 

Taped reminiscences of the movie star's 
exotic and quirky life as the mistress of 
the wealthy publisher during Holly- 



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wood's heyday. Includes glimpses of glit- 
tering and talented celebrities from 
around the globe. Forward written by 
Orson Welles. 1975. 



Musicians, 
Composers, 
and Singers 



Discs 



Ah-One, Ah-Two! Life with My 
Musical Family RD 8066 

by Lawrence Welk, with Bernice 
McGeehan 

narrated by Randy Atcher 
3 discs 

Stories about the author's triumphant 
return to television and his happy rela- 
tionship with his "musical family." 
Maestro Welk also tells about the chal- 
lenge of a personal tour, the time he 
flirted with a "hippie" image, and what 
America and God mean to him. 1974. 



Auld Acquaintance RD 9001 

by Guy Lombardo, with Jack Altshul 
narrated by Logan Pope 
4 discs 

The story of the orchestra leader who 
for more than fifty years conducted the 
"sweetest music this side of heaven." 
Lombardo reminisces about his boyhood 
in London, Ontario, his long career 
from vaudeville to television, and many 
of the auld acquaintances he has known. 
1975. 



Bessie RD 6604 

by Chris Albertson 

narrated by Frances Foster 

3 discs 

A portrait of the American blues singer, 

Bessie Smith, with recollections of the 

friends and associates who knew her 

well. The author, a jazz critic, discusses 

many of the personal and professional 

tragedies in the black entertainer's life. 

1972. 

Bob Dylan: A Retrospective 
RD6362 

compiled by Craig McGregor 

narrated by George Patterson 

5 discs 

A collection of studies concerning the 

contemporary American folk singer, 

composer and lyricist. 1972. 

Bubbles: A Self-Portrait RD 11028 
by Beverly Sills 
narrated by Suzanne Toren 
2 discs 

International opera star from Brooklyn, 
born into a middle-class Jewish family, 
recalls her early years and musical train- 
ing. Bestseller 1976. 

Elvis: A Biography RD 11789 
by Jerry Hopkins 
narrated by Richard Braun 
5 discs 

Portrays the singing star and the legend 
surrounding him from his humble begin- 
nings in Tupelo, Mississippi, to his man- 
sion in Memphis, Tennessee. Examines 
his career, his service in the army, and 
his records released through December 31, 
1970. 1971. 



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Great Singers, from the Seventeenth 
Century to the Present Day RD 7587 
by Kurt Pahlen 
narrated by Fleetwood 
4 discs 

For the opera aficionado as well as the 
neophyte who knows little of what goes 
into the development of a singer or the 
making of an opera. Tells of some of 
the great voices including Caruso, 
Chaliapin, Tauber, Gigli, and Melchior. 
1973. 

His Eye Is on the Sparrow RD 7103 
by Ethel Waters, with Charles Samuels 
narrated by Miriam Burton 
4 discs 

The story of the author's life from her 
wretched childhood in Philadelphia 
through periods of depression and suc- 
cess. 1972. 

If You Could See What I Hear 
RD8206 

by Tom Sullivan and Derek Gill 
narrated by Hal Tenny 
3 discs 

Autobiography of a gifted young singer 
and composer who became blind shortly 
after birth. Refusing to accept the limits 
of his handicap, he developed his abil- 
ities and became a champion wrestler, a 
dean's-list student, and graduate of Har- 
vard University. 1975. 

Janis RD 6674 

by David Dalton 

narrated by Joel Crothers 

3 discs 

A tribute to rock singer Janis Joplin by 

a contributing editor of Rolling Stone. 



musicians, composers, ana singers 

Dalton followed Janis around the coun- 
try and organized the material he 
gathered into this series of vignettes and 
interviews. Strong language. 1971. 

Jolson RD 6623 

by Michael Freedland 
narrated by Arnold Moss 
4 discs 

Depicts the world of the jazz singer Al 
Jolson, who became the toast of Broad- 
way, entertainer of presidents, and one 
of the biggest attractions in show 
business. 1972. 

Liberace: An Autobiography 

RD7129 
by Liberace 

narrated by Larry Robinson 
4 discs 

The autobiography of "Mr. Showman- 
ship," whose candelabra, gaudy piano, 
jewel encrusted wardrobe, and versatility 
made him a TV idol. 1973. 

Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's 
Daughter RD 9710 

by Loretta Lynn, with George Vecsey 
narrated by Dale Carter 

3 discs 

The country music star from Butcher 
Holler, Kentucky, candidly recalls her 
life from rags-to-riches. Lynn em- 
phasizes the importance of her twenty- 
five-year-old marriage and her faith in 
people and in God. Bestseller 1976. 

Merman RD 13007 

by Ethel Merman 

narrated by Terry Hayes Sales 

4 discs 



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Broadway's musical-comedy star offers a 
frank and fast-moving autobiography. 
She relates the devotion between herself 
and her parents, tells of friendships with 
the famous, and discusses her four 
tempestuous marriages. 1978. 

My Life with EMs RD 11130 

by Becky Yancey, with Cliff Linedecker 
narrated by Diane Eilenberg 

4 flexible discs 

The superstar's personal secretary for 
more than ten years presents a portrait 
of Presley as a narcissistic man trapped 
by his own success. She describes his 
unhappy marriage and his interest in 
religion, palmistry, and numerology. 
1977. 

My Young Years RD 6723 

by Artur Rubinstein 

narrated by Arnold Moss 

9 discs 

The famed maestro of the piano tells of 

his adventures, struggles, amours, 

mishaps, and triumphs from his birth in 

Poland of Jewish parents to his concerts 

in Switzerland during World War I. 

1973. 

Norma RD 10979 

by Norma Zimmer 
narrated by Jill Ferris 

5 flexible discs 

The petite singing star of radio and 
television recounts her story of hardship 
and poverty as a young girl. She also 
relates how she becomes a devout Chris- 
tian and a successful performer, and 
finds happiness in marriage and 
motherhood. 1976. 



Seeds of Man: An Experience JLived ana 
Dreamed RD 10162 

by Woody Guthrie 
narrated by Joel Crothers 
6 discs 

Autobiography that mixes fact and fancy 
by the legendary writer of folksongs. 
Describes his search for a lost silver and 
gold mine in the Big Bend country of 
southern Texas. 1976. 



The Story of the Trapp Family Singers 
RD7047 

by Maria Augusta Trapp 
narrated by Dale Carter 
4 discs 

Baroness von Trapp discusses her role as 
governess to seven motherless Austrian 
children, her marriage to their father, 
the development of the Trapp Family 
Singers, and their concert tours in 
Europe and America. The Sound of 
Music is based on this book. 1949. 



Then Sings My Soul RD 9283 

by George Beverly Shea, with Fred 
Bauer 

narrated by John Richardson 
2 discs 

The biography of the religious singer 
whose deep voice instills a "message in 
music." Some of the people who in- 
fluenced his life are Billy Graham, John 
Charles Thomas, Ethel Waters, and 
Jerome Mines. 1968. 



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Tilts for Remembrance: The 

Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, 

An Irish-American Sieger RD 11272 

by Rosemary Clooney, with Raymond 

Strait 

narrated by Michael McCullough 

3 discs 

The popular entertainer, best known for 

her singing and movie appearances in the 

1950s, recounts the events that led to her 

mental breakdown in 1968. She also tells 

of her subsequent recovery and return to 

a productive life and career. Some 

strong language. 1977. 



musicians, composers, ana singers 
Biography of Bing Crosby covers five 
decades of show business, portraying the 
crooner during his bad and good times. 
1976. 



Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral 

History RC 10338 
by Vivian Perlis 
narrated by Patricia Beaudry 
2 cassettes 

Interviews with family, friends, neigh- 
bors, business associates, and musicians 
combine to form an in-depth portrait of 
an original and creative twentieth- 
century musical mind. 1974. 



Musicians 9 

Composers, 
and Siegers 



Cassettes 



And Music at the Close: Stravinsky's 
Last Years, A Personal Memoir 
EC 8978 

by Lillian Libman 
narrated by Patricia Beaudry 
6 cassettes 

An account of Igor Stravinsky's last 
twelve years by his personal represent- 
ative, who was often companion, 
secretary, valet, and chauffeur. Presents 
a portrait of an aging genius struggling 
to maintain his dignity. 1972. 



Bing: The Authorized Biography 

RC 12783 

by Charles Thompson 

narrated by Ray Hagen 

2 cassettes 



Country Gentleman RC 8851 

by Chet Atkins, with Bill Neely 
narrated by Michael Moodie 
3 cassettes 

Autobiography of a developer of both 
contemporary and the finger-pickin' 
style of guitar playing. Reveals a shy 
man's search for expression and accep- 
tance. 1974. 



The Honeymoon Is Over RC 12865 
by Pat and Shirley Boone 
narrated by James DeLotel 
1 cassette 

The popular Hollywood couple offer a 
behind the scenes look at their family 
life and a set of spiritual principles to 
guide readers. They explain how a deep 
belief in God helped them in handling 
their own personal difficulties in mar- 
riage and in raising their children. 1977. 



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The Jackson Five RC 9186 

by Ellen Motoviloff 
narrated by Dick Martin 

1 cassette 

A brief biography of the first black teen 
group to reach stardom. Follows them 
from their early days in Gary, Indiana, 
to their discovery by Diana Ross and 
their arrival as superstars. For junior 
and senior high readers. 1972. 

My Life with Elvis RC 11130 

by Becky Yancey, with Cliff Linedecker 

narrated by Diane Eilenberg 

2 cassettes 

The superstar's personal secretary for 
more than ten years presents a portrait 
of Presley as a narcissistic man trapped 
by his own success. She describes his 
unhappy marriage, and his interest in 
religion, palmistry, and numerology. 
1977. 

Norma RC 10979 

by Norma Zimmer 
narrated by Jill Ferris 
2 cassettes 

The petite singing star of radio and 
television recounts her story of hardship 
and poverty as a young girl. She also 
relates how she becomes a devout Chris- 
tian, a successful performer, and finds 
happiness in marriage and motherhood. 
1976. 

On Stage, Elvis Presley RC 10274 

by Kathleen Bowman 

narrated by Ed Sheppard 

1 cassette 

Account of the life and career of the 

popular singer who caused a great stir 



with his rise to fame in the 1950s. For 
junior and senior high readers. 1976. 



The Shaun Cassidy Scrapbook: A 

Biography RC 12975 

by Connie Berman 

narrated by Buckley Kozlow 

1 cassette 

The story of the young singer and actor 

who became a show business celebrity 

and millionaire while still in his teens. 

For junior and senior high readers. 1978, 



Sinatra: An Unauthorized 
Biography RC 10050 

by Earl Wilson 
narrated by Ralph Bell 
3 cassettes 

Portrait of a famous entertainer from 
his childhood in Hoboken to his present 
eminence. Covers Sinatra's success as a 
teenage idol, his ups and downs, his 
romantic adventures, his brawls with the 
press, and his philanthropy. Strong 
language. 1976. 



The Story of Stevie Wonder 
RC 11600 

by James Haskins 
narrated by Charlie Ryle 
1 cassette 

Biography of the blind composer, 
pianist, and singer who emerged as a 
child prodigy and went on to win many 
Grammy Awards. For junior and senior 
high readers. 1976. 



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The Story of the Trapp Faimly 
Singers RC 7047 
by Maria Augusta Trapp 
narrated by Dale Carter 
2 cassettes 

Baroness von Trapp discusses her role as 
governess to seven motherless Austrian 
children, her marriage to their father, 
the development of the Trapp Family 
Singers, and their concert tours in 
Europe and America. The Sound of 
Music is based on this book. 1949. 



Musicians, 
Composers, 
and Singers 



Braille 



Beethoven: A Documentary 
Study BR 2111 

compiled and edited by H. C. Robbins 
Landon 
5 volumes 

Combining diary excerpts, letters, con- 
versation books, newspaper notices, and 
other documents of the time, the author 
gives an intimate view of Beethoven's 
world his friends and patrons, his 
fellow musicians, the places he enjoyed, 
and the women he loved. 1970. 

Bob Dylan: A Retrospective 

BR 2091 

compiled by Craig McGregor 

4 volumes 

A collection of studies concerning the 

contemporary American folk singer, 

composer, and lyricist. 1972. 



composers, ana singers 
Bruckner BR 1919 

by Hans Hubert Schonzeler 

2 volumes 

An introduction to the life and times of 

a great Austrian composer, giving both a 

picture of the man's unique character 

and an introduction to his music. 1970. 

The Cole Porter Story, As Told to 
Richard G. Hubler BR 422 

by Cole Porter 

1 volume 

Autobiographical account of the com- 
poser's career, followed by a discussion 
by Hubler. The composer's contribution 
to popular music is treated with affec- 
tionate appreciation in an introduction 
by Arthur Schwartz. 1965. 

Composers of Tomorrow's Music: A 
Non-Technical Introduction to the 
Musical Avant-Garde Movement 
BR 1945 

by David Ewen 

2 volumes 

Sketches the lives and theories of ten of 
the avant-garde movement's leading ex- 
ponents. 1971. 

Country Gentleman BR 2808 
by Chet Atkins, with Bill Neely 
2 volumes 

Autobiography of a developer of both 
contemporary and the finger-pickin' 
style of guitar playing. Reveals a shy 
man's search for expression and accep- 
tance. 1974. 

Daybreak BR 948 
by Joan Baez 
1 volume 



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JLIJLC 



singer ana pacnist tens 01 ner 
life and personal views on politics and 
social questions. 1968. 

Divas BR 2308 

by Winthrop Sargeant 

2 volumes 

Profiles of six superstar sopranos of the 

opera world. 1973. 

Frederic Chopin BR 153 

by Victor Seroff 

1 volume 

A brief biography of the gifted pianist- 
composer. The stress is less on his music 
than on his lifehis Polish nationalism, 
his relationships with other artists, and 
his ill health and early death. A selected 
discography is included. For junior and 
senior high readers. 1964. 

George Gershwin BR 149 

by Edward Jablonski 

2 volumes 

A biography of the successful songwriter 
from the early influence of a boyhood 
friend who was a child violinist to 
Gershwin's death at age thirty-nine. 
1962. 

If You Could See What I Hear 
BR 2848 

by Tom Sullivan and Derek Gill 
2 volumes 

Autobiography of a gifted young singer 
and composer who became blind shortly 
after birth. Refusing to accept the limits 
of his handicap, he developed his abil- 
ities and became a champion wrestler, a 
dean's-list student, and a graduate of 
Harvard University. 1975. 



oi me tjreai composers 
BR 1993 

by Harold C. Schonberg 
9 volumes 

Traces more than fifty major composers 
in chronological order, showing how 
each has contributed to the evolution of 
music from Bach to the twentieth cen- 
tury. Emphasis is on the life of each 
man rather than on musical criticism. 
1970. 

Louis Armstrong BR 2121 

by Hugues Panassie 

1 volume 

Portrait of the black trumpeter and 
singer from his boyhood in New 
Orleans, with particular emphasis on his 
musical career. 1971. 

Mozart: His Character, His Work 
BR 1997 

by Alfred Einstein, translated by Arthur 
Mendel and Nathan Broder 
7 volumes 

A critical biography. The first part deals 
with Mozart's life, including his Cathol- 
icism and Freemasonry, his relationships 
with women, and his associations with 
his contemporaries; the second part pro- 
vides historical context for his work and 
evaluates his music. 1945. 

My America, Your America 
BR 3536 

by Lawrence Welk, with Bernice 
McGeehan 

2 volumes 

Popular orchestra leader expresses his 
faith in the human race and reflects on 
his life, trials, and successes. Includes 



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stories, backstage glimpses, a bicenten- 
nial prayer, and a strong commitment to 
religious belief. 1976. 

Myra Hess, by Her Friends BR 810 

compiled by Denise Lassimonne, edited 
by Howard Ferguson 
1 volume 

A posthumous collection of tributes to 
the English pianist. Included are a 
discography and a list of works played 
at the National Gallery during World 
War II, when she organized and played 
in daily concerts to sustain the morale of 
London workers. 1966. 



On Stage, Johnny Cash BR 3537 

by Kathleen Bowman 

1 volume 

The hard life and triumphant career of 

the country music singer known as a 

champion of the common man. For 

junior and senior high readers. 1976. 

Scriabin BR 2065 

by Alfred Swan 
1 volume 



Musicians, Composers, ana lingers 
Study of the life and music of the 
twentieth-century Russian pianist and 
composer. Describes his metamorphosis 
from a classical mode to a unique tonal 
style, his years at the Moscow Conser- 
vatory of Music, and his impact on 
other composers. 1969. 

Stravinsky BR 1893 

by Robert Siohan, translated by Eric 
Walter White 
2 volumes 

Account of the life and music of an in- 
novative twentieth-century composer, 
from his childhood in czarist Russia to 
his later years. 1970. 

With a Song in His Heart: The Story of 
Richard Rodgers BR 148 

by David Ewen 
2 volumes 

Covers the composer's outstanding suc- 
cesses from A Connecticut Yankee to 
The Sound of Music from inception to 
triumph, and discusses the part played 
by Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein 
as collaborators. For junior and senior 
high readers. 1963. 



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Bibliographies 



Bibliographies of books on disc and 
cassette and in braille are available on 
request from network libraries. They 
cover a variety of subjects and are pro- 
duced in large-print, disc, and braille 
formats. 

Bestsellers 

Lists bestselling fiction of the twentieth 
century. Published in 1979. 

Freedom '76 

Commemorates 200 years of American 
life its politics, people, and history. 
Published in 1976. 

Health 

Emphasizes the human body, physical 
health care, and medical history and 
research. Published in 1979. 

Home Management 

Books on the many aspects of the home 
including cooking, gardening, child care, 
and finance. Published in 1977. 

I Went to the Animal Fair 

Books about animals for children from 



preschool to junior high. Published in 
1978. 

Magazines 1978 

Information on periodicals in special for- 
mats that are available on direct circula- 
tion from cooperating libraries and from 
other producers. To be updated bian- 
nually. Published in 1978. 

Religion 

Sacred writings and books on religions 
around the world and other inspirational 
subjects. Published in 1979. 

Science 

Books on botany, astronomy, physics, 
and many other scientific and 
technological areas. Published in 1978. 

Science Fiction 

Full-length novels and anthologies of 
short stories about speculative ideas, 
marvelous discoveries, and travel and 
adventures in time and space. Published 
in 1979. 

Sports 

Books about sports, outdoor activities, 
and sportswriters on sports. Published in 

1977. 



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JLIIUCA 



Discs 



Actor, The Life and Times of Paul 1 
Muni RD7975 
by Jerome Lawrence 

Ah-One, Ah-Two! Life with My 32 

Musical Family RD 8066 

by Lawrence Welk 

Albert Payson Terhune: The Master 17 
of Sunnybank RD 6481 

by Kurt Unkelbach 



Albertson, Chris 
Bessie RD 6604 



At Random: The Reminiscences of 
Bennett Cerf RD 11206 

by Bennett Cerf 



32 



Alsop, Stewart 30 

Stay of Execution: A Sort of 
Memoir RD 6913 

Angelou, Maya 6 

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' 
Merry like Christmas RD 10251 

Arlene Francis: A Memoir 1 

RD 11874 

by Arlene Francis 



28 



Auld Acquaintance RD 9001 32 

by Guy Lombardo 

Aumont, Jean Pierre 7 

Sun and Shadow RD 10738 

An Autobiography RD 10842 17 

by Agatha Christie 

Ava: A Life Story RD 7625 1 

by Charles Higham 

B 

Bacall, Lauren 5 

Lauren Bacall: By Myself 
RD 13275 



Baker, Josephine 
Josephine RD 11415 



27 



Barzini, Luigi 29 

O America, When You and I Were 
Young RD 10529 

Bell, Quentin 20 

Virginia Woolf : A Biography 
RD6243 

Ben Jonson of Westminster 17 

RD6214 

by Marchette Gaylord Chute 

Benchley, Nathaniel 3 

Humphrey Bogart RD 8394 

Benny, Mary Livingstone 3 

Jack Benny RD 11448 



41 



UlSCS 



Berle, Milton 5 

Milton Berle: An Autobiography 
RD7979 

Bessie RD 6604 32 

by Chris Albertson 

Bob Dylan: A Retrospective 32 

RD6362 

compiled by Craig McGregor 

Bosworth, Patricia 6 

Montgomery Clift: A Biography 
RD 12017 



Bouillon, Jo 
Josephine RD 11415 



27 



Bring on the Empty Horses 1 

RD9043 

by David Niven 

Bubbles: A Self-Portrait 32 

RD 11028 

by Beverly Sills 

Burns, George 5 

Living It Up; or, They Still Love 
Me in Altoona RD 10246 



Canfield, Cass 30 

Up and Down and Around: A 
Publisher Recollects the Time of 
His Life RD 6406 

Carroll, Gladys 20^ 

Years Away from Home RD 6064 

Cashin, Fergus 6 

Richard Burton, Very Close Up 
RD6242 



Cate, Curtis 

George Sand: A Biography 

RD9073 



Christie, Agatha 

An Autobiography RD 10842 



18 



Cerf , Bennett 28 

At Random: The Reminiscences of 
Bennett Cerf RD 11206 

Change Lobsters, and Dance: 1 

An Autobiography RD 9868 

by Lilli Palmer 

Changing RD 10166 1 

by Liv Ullmann 

Chaplin RD 8001 1 

by Roger Manvell 



17 



The Camera Never Blinks: 
Adventures of a TV Journalist 
RD 10834 

by Dan Rather 



28 



Chute, Marchette Gaylord 
Ben Jonson of Westminster 
RD6214 



Clearing the Air 

by Daniel Schorr 



RD 11988 



17 



28 



42 



The Clocks of Columbus: The 17 

Literary Career of James Thurber 
RD6653 

by Charles Holmes 

Clooney, Rosemary 35 

This for Remembrance: The 
Autobiography of Rosemary 
Clooney, An Irish-American Singer 
RD 11272 

Coatsworth, Elizabeth 19 

Personal Geography: Almost an 
Autobiography RD 10257 

Colman, Juliet Benita 6 

Ronald Colman, a Very Private 
Person: A Biography RD 8458 

Cooper, Miriam 2 

Dark Lady of the Silents: My Life 
in Early Hollywood RD 7077 

Cottrell, John 6 

Richard Burton, Very Close Up 
RD6242 

The Count: The Life and Films of 2 
Bela "Dracula" Lugosi RD 8002 

by Arthur Lennig 

Crawford, Christina 5 

Mommie Dearest RD 12943 



Index Discs 

Dark Lady of the Silents: My Life 2 
in Early Hollywood RD 7077 
by Miriam Cooper 

Dateline: White House RD 9015 28 

by Helen Thomas 

Diaries, 1949-1959 RD 7310 29 

by Drew Pearson 

Distinguished Company RD 7110 2 

by Sir John Gielgud 

Don't Put Your Daughter on the 2 
Stage RD6084* 

by Margaret Webster 

Doris Day: Her Own Story 2 

RD9280 

by A. E. Hotchner 

Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in 29 
Her Time RD 7255 

by Marion K. Sanders 

Dostoevsky, Anna 17 

Dostoevsky: Reminiscences 
RD 9371 

Dostoevsky: Reminiscences 17 

RD 9371 by Anna Dostoevsky 



Dylan Thomas RD 11209 

by Paul Ferris 



17 



D 



Dalton, David 
Janis RD 6674 



33 



E 



Edgar Allan Poe, Visitor from the 
Night of Time RD 7094 

by Philip Stern 



17 



43 



JL11UCA, Discs 



Edwards, Anne 

Vivien Leigh: A Biography 

RD 11496 



Eells, George 3 

Ginger, Loretta, and Irene Who? 
RD 10472 

EMs: A Biography RD 11789 32 

by Jerry Hopkins 

Erdman, Loula 20 

A Time to Write RD 6565 

Every Other Inch a Lady 2 

RD6668 

by Beatrice Lillie 



F 



Parson, Daniel 18 

The Man Who Wrote Dracula: 
Biography of Bram Stoker 
RD 11261 



Ferris, Paul 

Dylan Thomas RD 11209 



Francis, Arlene 

Arlene Francis: A Memoir 

RD 11874 



Frank, Gerold 
Judy RD8405 



Freedland, Michael 
Jolson RD 6623 



17 



33 



G 



Gayle, Addison 18 

Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul 
Laurence Dunbar RD 6040 

Gene Kelly: A Biography 2 

RD8348 

by Clive Hirschhorn 



George Sand: A Biography 

RD9073 

by Curtis Gate 



18 



Gielgud, Sir John 2 

Distinguished Company RD 7110 

Gill, Derek 33 

If You Could See What I Hear 
RD8206 

Ginger, Loretta, and Irene Who? 3 

RD 10472 

by George Eells 

Giroud, Francoise 29 

I Give You My Word RD 8453 

Good Evening Everybody: From 29 

Cripple Creek to Samarkand 

RD 10028 

by Lowell Thomas 

Goudge, Elizabeth 18 

The Joy of the Snow RD 8508 

Grandma Moses: My Life's History 15 
RD8517 

by Anna Mary Robertson Moses 



44 



Index Discs 



Great Singers, from the Seventeenth 33 

Century to the Present Day 
RD7587 

by Kurt Pahlen 

Guthrie, Woody 34 

Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived 
and Dreamed RD 10162 

H 

Harvest of Yesterdays RD 10178 18 

by Gladys Taber 

Hayward, Brooke 3 

Haywire RD 10219 

Haywire RD 10219 3 

by Brooke Hayward 



Hellman, Lillian 
Pentimento RD 6936 



Himes, Chester 

The Quality of Hurt: The 

Autobiography of Chester Himes 

RD6427 



19 



Herndon, Booton 
Mary Pickford and Douglas 
Fairbanks: The Most Popular 
Couple the World Has Ever 
Known RD 11129 

Higham, Charles 

Ava: A Life Story RD 7625 

Higham, Charles 

Kate: The Life of Katherine 

Hepburn RD 8452 



19 



Hirschhorn, Clive 
Gene Kelly: A Biography 
RD8348 



His Eye Is on the Sparrow 
RD7103 

by Ethel Waters 



If You Could See What I Hear 
RD8206 

by Tom Sullivan and Derek Gill 



33 



Hitch: The Life and Times of 3 

Alfred Hitchcock RD 13090 

by John Russell Taylor 

Holmes, Charles 17 

The Clocks of Columbus: The 
Literary Career of James Thurber 
RD6653 

Hopkins, Jerry 32 

Elvis: A Biography RD 11789 

Hotchner, A. E. 2 

Doris Day: Her Own Story 

RD9280 

Hotchner, A. E. 7 

Sophia, Living and Loving: Her 
Own Story RD 13487 

Humphrey Bogart RD 8394 3 

by Nathaniel Benchley 



I 



I Give You My Word RD 8453 29 

by Francoise Giroud 



33 



45 



Discs 



In One Era and Out the Other 
RD7090 

by Sam Levenson 



Judy RD8405 
by Gerold Frank 



Jack Benny ED 11448 

by Mary Livingstone Benny and 

Milliard Marks 



The Jack Benny Show 

by Milt Josefsberg 



RD 10227 



Jane: An Intimate Biography of 
Jane Fonda RD 7370 
by Thomas J. Kiernan 



Janis RD 6674 
by David Dalton 



Jolson RD 6623 

by Michael Freedland 



Josephine RD 11415 

by Josephine Baker and 
Jo Bouillon 



The Joy of the Snow 

by Elizabeth Goudge 



RD8508 



33 



Jayne Mansfield and the American 
Fifties RD8312 

by Martha Saxton 

Joan Crawford RD 13152 

by Bob Thomas 



33 



Josefsberg, Milt 

The Jack Benny Show RD 10227 



27 



18 



K 



Karlof f : The Life of Boris Karloff 

RD6433 

by Peter Underwood 

Kate: The Life of Katheriiie 
Hepburn RD 8452 
by Charles Higham 

Katz, Mickey 

Papa, Play for Me: The Hilarious, 
Heartwarming Autobiography of 
Comedian and Bandleader Mickey 
Katz RD 11710 



Kiernan, Thomas J. 

Jane: An Intimate Biography of 
Jane Fonda RD 7370 



Lauren Bacall: By Myself 

RD 13275 

by Lauren Bacall 



4 



Lawrence, Jerome 

Actor, The Life and Times of Paul 
Muni RD7975 

Lennig, Arthur 

The Count: The Life and Films of 
Beia "Dracula" Lugosi RD 8002 



46 



Index Discs 



Levenson, Sam 3 

In One Era and Out the Other 
RD7090 

Liberace 33 

Liberace: An Autobiography 
RD7129 

Liberace: An Autobiography 33 

RD7129 

by Liberace 

Life with Lindsay and Grouse 18 

RD 13147 

by Cornelia Otis Skinner 

Lillie, Beatrice 2 

Every Other Inch a Lady 

RD6668 



Living It Up; or, They Still Love 5 

Me in Altoona RD 10246 

by George Burns 

Lombardo, Guy 32 

Auld Acquaintance RD 9001 

Long Live the King: A Biography 5 

of Clark Gable RD 10422 

by Lyn Tornabene 

Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's 33 

Daughter RD 9710 

by Loretta Lynn 



Louisa May: A Modern Biography 
of Louisa May Alcott RD 11709 

by Martha Saxton 



18 



Love, Laughter and Tears: My 
Hollywood Story RD 11755 

by Adela Rogers St. Johns 

Lynn, Loretta 

Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's 

Daughter RD 9710 



M 



Marx, Arthur 
Son of Groucho 



RD6383 



33 



McAleer, John J. 19 

Rex Stout: A Biography RD 11608 

The Man Who Wrote Dracula: 18 

A Biography of Bram Stoker 
RD 11261 

by Daniel Parson 

Manchel, Frank 7 

The Talking Clowns: From Laurel 
and Hardy to the Marx Brothers 
RD 11003 

Manvell, Roger 1 

Chaplin RD 8001 

Marks, Milliard 3 

Jack Benny RD 11448 



7 



Mary Pickf ord and Douglas 
Fairbanks: The Most Popular 
Couple the World Has Ever 
Known RD 11129 

by Booton Herndon 



47 



Merman RD 13007 
by Ethel Merman 



33 



Merman, Ethel 
Merman RD 13007 



Milland, Ray 

Wide-Eyed in Babylon: An 

Autobiography RD 8097 



N 



Neff , Hildegarde 
The Verdict RD 9369 



Niven, David 

Bring on the Empty Horses 

RD9043 



33 



8 



Milton Berie: An Autobiography 5 

RD7979 

by Milton Berle 

Mommie Dearest RD 12943 5 

by Christina Crawford 

Montgomery Clift: A Biography 6 

RD 12017 

by Patricia Bosworth 

Moses, Anna Mary Robertson 15 

Grandma Moses: My Life's History 
RD8517 

My Life with Elvis RD 11130 34 

by Becky Yancey 

My Young Years RD 6723 34 

by Artur Rubinstein 



Norma RD 10979 
by Norma Zimmer 

o 



34 



O America, When You and I Were 29 
Young RD 10529 
by Luigi Barzini 



Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul 
Laurence Dunbar RD 6040 

by Addison Gayle 



7 Pearson, Drew 

Diaries, 1949-1959 RD 7310 



1 Pearson, Hesketh 

Sir Walter Scott: His Life and 
Personality RD 6224 



18 



Pahlen, Kurt 33 

Great Singers, from the Seventeenth 

Century to the Present Day 
RD7587 

Palmer, Lilli 1 

Change Lobsters, and Dance: An 
Autobiography RD 9868 

Papa, Play for Me: The Hilarious, 6 
Heartwarming Autobiography of 
Comedian and Bandleader Mickey 
Katz RD 11710 
by Mickey Katz 



29 



19 



48 



Pentimento RD 6936 

by Lillian Hellman 



19 



Personal Geography: Almost an 19 

Autobiography RD 10257 
by Elizabeth Coatsworth 

Princess Grace RD 10843 6 

by Gwen Robyns 



Index Discs 



Ronald Colman, A Very Private 

Person: A Biography RD 8458 
by Juliet Benita Colman 

Rubenstein, Artur 

My Young Years RD 6723 



34 



Q 



The Quality of Hurt: The 

Autobiography of Chester Himes 

RD6427 

by Chester Himes 



19 



St. Johns, Adela Rogers 
Love, Laughter and Tears: My 
Hollywood Story RD 11755 



St. Johns, Adela Rogers 

Some Are Born Great RD 7980 



19 



R 



Rather, Dan 28 

The Camera Never Blinks: 
Adventures of a TV Journalist 
RD 10834 



Rex Stout: A Biography 

RD 11608 

by John McAleer 



19 



Richard Burton, Very Close Up 

RD6242 

by John Cottrell and Fergus Cashin 

Robyns, Gwen 

Princess Grace RD 10843 



Sanders, Marion K. 29 

Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in 

Her Time RD 7255 

Saxton, Martha 4 

Jayne Mansfield and the American 

Fifties RD8312 

Saxton, Martha 18 

Louisa May: A Modem Biography 
of Louisa May Alcott RD 11709 

Schorr, Daniel 28 

Clearing the Air RD 11988 

Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived 34 
and Dreamed RD 10162 

by Woody Guthrie 



49 



Index 



Discs 



Shea, George Beverly 34 

Then Sings My Soul RD 9283 

Shirer, William L. 29 

The Start, 1904-1930 RD 10161 

Shooting Star: A Biography of 6 

John Wayne RD 7362 
by Maurice Zolotow 



Sills, Beverly 

Bubbles: A Self-Portrait 

RD 11028 




32 



Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' 6 

Merry like Christmas RD 10251 

by Maya Angelou 

Sir Walter Scott: His Life and 19 

Personality RD 6224 

by Hesketh Pearson 

Skinner, Cornelia Otis 18 

Life with Lindsay and Crouse 
RD 13147 

So Long Until Tomorrow: From 29 
Quaker Hill to Katmandu 
RD 10839 

by Lowell Thomas 

Some Are Born Great RD 7980 19 

by Adela Rogers St. Johns 



Sophia, Living and Loving: Her 
Own Story RD 13487 

by A. E. Hotchner 



The Start, 1904-1930 RD 10161 29 

by William L. Shirer 

Stay of Execution: A Sort of 30 

Memoir RD 6913 

by Stewart Alsop 

Stern, Philip 17 

Edgar Allan Poe, Visitor from the 
Night of Time RD 7094 

The Story of the Trapp Family 34 

Singers RD 7047 

by Maria Augusta Trapp 



The Strength of the Hills 
RD 11109 

by Elswyth Thane 



19 



Sullivan, Tom 33 

If You Could See What I Hear 
RD8206 

Sun and Shadow RD 10738 7 

by Jean Pierre Aurnont 



Taber, Gladys 18 

Harvest of Yesterdays RD 10178 

The Talking Clowns: From Laurel 7 

and Hardy to the Marx Brothers 

RD 11003 

by Frank Manchel 

Taylor, John Russell 3 

Hitch: The Life and Times of 
Alfred Hitchcock RD 13090 



50 



Index Discs 



Thane, Elswyth 

The Strength of the Hills 

RD 11109 



A Time to Write RD 6565 
by Loula Erdman 



19 



Then Sings My SouS RD 9283 34 

by George Beverly Shea 

This for Remembrance: The 35 

Autobiography of Rosemary 
Clooney, An Irish-American Singer 
RD 11272 
by Rosemary Clooney 

Thomas, Bob 4 

Joan Crawford RD 13152 

Thomas, Helen 28 

Dateline: White House RD 9015 

Thomas, Lowell 29 

Good Evening Everybody: From 
Cripple Creek to Samarkand 
RD 10028 

Thomas, Lowell 29 

So Long Until Tomorrow: From 
Quaker Hill to Katmandu 
RD 10839 



20 



u 



Ullmann, Liv 
Changing RD 10166 



Underwood, Peter 4 

Karloff : The Life of Boris Karloff 
RD6433 

Unkelback, Kurt 17 

Albert Payson Terhune: The Master 
of Sunnybank RD 6481 



Up and Down and Around: A 
Publisher Recollects the Time of 
His Life RD 6406 

by Cass Canfield 



The Verdict RD 9369 
by Hildegarde Neff 



30 



Virginia Woolf : A Biography 20 

RD6243 

by Quentin Bell 

Vivien Leigh: A Biography 7 

RD 11496 

by Anne Edwards 



Tornabene, Lyn 

Long Live the King: A Biography 

of Clark Gable RD 10422 



Trapp, Maria Augusta 

The Story of the Trapp Family 

Singers RD 7047 



34 



w 



Waters, Ethel 

His Eye Is on the Sparrow 

RD7103 



33 



51 



Index 



Discs, Cassettes 



Webster, Margaret 2 

Don't Put Your Daughter on the 
Stage RD 6084 

Weintraub, Stanley 15 

Whistler: A Biography RD 7977 

Welk, Lawrence 32 

Ah-One, Ah-Two! Life with My 
Musical Family RD 8066 

West, Jessamyn 20 

The Woman Said Yes: Encounters 
with Life and Death: Memoirs 
RD9354 

Whistler: A Biography RD 7977 15 

by Stanley Weintraub 



Wide-Eyed in Babylon: An 
Autobiography RD 8097 

by Ray Milland 



The Woman Said Yes: Encounters 
with Life and Death: Memoirs 
RD9354 

by Jessamyn West 



8 



20 



Yancey, Becky 34 

My Life with EMs RD 11130 

Years Away from Home RD 6064 20 

by Gladys Carroll 



Zimmer, Norma 
Norma RD 10979 



Arnaz, Desi 

A Book RC 10301 



Arnold Bennett: A Biography 
RC 8655 

by Margaret Drabble 



34 



Zolotow, Maurice 

Shooting Star: A Biography of 

John Wayne RD 7362 



Cassettes 
A 

Along Came the Witch: A Journal 20 
in the 1960s RC 9950 

by Helen Bevington 

American Hunger RC 10660 20 

by Richard Wright 

And Music at the Close: 35 

Stravinsky's Last Years, A Personal 
Memoir RC 8978 

by Lillian Libman 

Anything for a Quiet Life: The 8 

Autobiography of Jack Hawkins 
RC 8609 

by Jack Hawkins 



8 



21 



52 



Index Cassettes 



Atkins, Chet 35 

Country Gentleman RC 8851 

An Autobiography RC 10842 21 

by Agatha Christie 



B 



Bate, W. Jackson 23 

Samuel Johnson RC 12193 



Baxter, Anne 

Intermission: A True Story 
RC 10573 



Benny, Mary Livingstone 
Jack Benny RC 11448 



Bogart & Bacall: A Love Story 
RC 9217 

by Joseph Hyams 



10 



10 



Berman, Connie 36 

The Shaun Cassidy Scrapbook: A 
Biography RC 12975 

Bevington, Helen 20 

Along Came the Witch: A Journal 
in the 1960s RC 9950 

Bing: The Authorized Biography 35 

RC 12783 

by Charles Thompson 

Birkenhead, Lord Frederick 23 

Rudyard Kipling RC 13328 

Black Film Stars RC 9215 8 

by Eileen Landay 



8 



Bogey's Baby RC 12482 

by Howard Greenberger 



8 



A Book RC 10301 

by Desi Arnaz 



Boone, Pat 

The Honeymoon Is Over 

RC 12865 



Boone, Shirley 

The Honeymoon Is Over 

RC 12865 



Byron RC 11931 

by Andre Maurois 



Carroll, Sara 

The Search: A Biography of Leo 

Tolstoy RC 10409 



8 



35 



35 



Boswell, James 22 

The Life of Samuel Johnson 
RC 12304 

Bowman, Kathleen 36 

On Stage, Elvis Presley RC 10274 



21 



The Camera Never Blinks: 30 

Adventures of a TV Journalist 
RC 10834 

by Dan Rather 

A Canterbury Tale: Experiences 30 

and Reflections, 1916-1976 
RC 11965 

by John Cogley 



24 



53 



Index 



Cassettes 



Chagall RC 10054 

by Jean Paul Crespelle 



15 



Chance Meetings RC 12743 21 

by William Saroyan 

Chaplin, Charles 12 

My Autobiography RC 8867 

Charles Dickens RC 12773 21 

by G. K. Chesterton 

Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral 35 
History RC 10338 

by Vivian Perlis 



Cheshire, Maxine 
Maxine Cheshire, Reporter 
RC 12279 



Clare Sheridan RC 11591 

by Anita Leslie 



Constant, Alberta Wilson 
Paintbox on the Frontier: The Life 
and Times of George Caleb 
Bingham RC 12769 



31 



Chesterton, G. K. 21 

Charles Dickens RC 12773 

Christie, Agatha 21 

An Autobiography RC 10842 



15 



Cogley, John 30 

A Canterbury Tale: Experiences 
and Reflections, 1916-1976 
RC 11965 

Conrad, Earl 9 

Errol Flynn: A Memoir RC 12389 



15 



Country Gentleman RC 8851 35 

by Chet Atkins 

Crawford, Christina 11 

Mommie Dearest RC 12943 



Crespelle, Jean Paul 
Chagall RC 10054 



D 



Day, Donald 

Will Rogers: A Biography 

RC 9823 



du Maurier, Daphne 

Myself When Young: The Shaping 

of a Writer RC 11302 



15 



13 



Day, Douglas 23 

Malcolm Lowry: A Biography 
RC 9786 

Dear Boris: The Life of William 9 

Henry Pratt A.K.A. Boris 
Karloff RC 12731 
by Cynthia Lindsay 

Dear Me RC 11939 9 

by Peter Ustinov 

Drabble, Margaret 21 

Arnold Bennett: A Biography 
RC 8655 



23 



Index Cassettes 



E 



Edith Wharton: A Biography 21 

RC 9775 

by R. W. B. Lewis 



Edwards, Anne 

Vivien Leigh: A Biography 

RC 10865 



Farther Off from Heaven 
RC 10868 

by William Humphrey 



Gaskell, Elizabeth 

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 

RC 10284 



12 



Errol Flynn: A Memoir RC 12389 9 

by Earl Conrad 

Everything but Money RC 9934 9 

by Sam Levenson 



F 



21 



Finding My Father: One Man's 22 

Search for Identity RC 10537 

by Rod McKuen 

The Fonz: The Henry Winkier 9 

Story RC 12574 
by Charles E. Pike 



G 



22 



Gillman, Dorothy 

A New Kind of Country 

RC 12702 



Hale, Nancy 

Mary Cassatt RC 9842 



Harrison, Rex 

Rex: An Autobiography 

RC 12681 



23 



Goldman, Albert 10 

Ladies and Gentlemen Lenny 
Bruce RC 8604 

Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man 9 
behind the Myth RC 13242 

by Arthur Marx 

Gordon, Ruth 12 

My Side: The Autobiography of 
Ruth Gordon RC 10331 

Great Times, Good Times 9 

RC 12776 

by James Kotsilibas-Davis 

Greenberger, Howard 8 

Bogey's Baby RC 12482 

Grenfell, Joyce 10 

Joyce Grenfell Requests the 
Pleasure RC 11923 



H 



15 



Happy Days, 1880-1892 30 

RC 10681 by H. L. Mencken 



12 



55 



Index 



Cassettes 



Raskins, James 36 

The Story of Stevie Wonder 
RC 11600 

Hawkins, Jack 8 

Anything for a Quiet Life: The 
Autobiography of Jack 
Hawkins RC 8609 

Hearts and Minds: The Common 22 
Journey of Simone de Beauvoir and 
Jean Paul Sartre RC 11967 

by Axel Madsen 



Heathen Days, 1890-1936 
RC 10403 

by H. L. Mencken 



Hemingway, Gregory H. 
Papa: A Personal Memoir 
RC 11159 



31 



HelPs Cartographers: Some 22 

Personal Histories of Science 
Fiction Writers RC 12295 

edited by Brian W. Aldiss and 
Harry Harrison 



23 



Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, 10 

Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, 
Movie-Makers and Moneymakers, 
Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and 
Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex 
Symbols RC 13627 
by Garson Kanin 



The Honeymoon Is Over 
RC 12865 

by Pat and Shirley Boone 



35 



Humphrey, William 
Farther Off from Heaven 
RC 10868 



21 



Hyams, Joseph 

Bogart & Bacall: A Love 

Story RC9217 



8 



Intermission: A True Story 
RC 10573 

by Anne Baxter 



10 



Herndon, Booton 11 

Mary Pickford and Douglas 
Fairbanks: The Most Popular 
Couple the World Has Ever 
Known RC 11129 



Higham, Charles 

Marlene: The Life of Marlene 

Dietrich RC 12609 



11 



Jack Benny RC 11448 10 

by Mary Livingstone Benny and 
Hilliard Marks 

The Jackson Five RC 9186 36 

by Ellen Motoviloff 



Jacobs, Frank 

The Mad World of William M, 

Gaines RC 7934 



31 



56 



Index Cassettes 



John Huston, Maker of Magic 10 

RC 12595 

by Stuart Kaminsky 

Journey through a Lighted Room 31 
RC 7706 

by Margaret Parton 



Joyce Grenfell Requests the 
Pleasure RC 11923 

by Joyce Grenfell 

K 



Kaminsky, Stuart 
John Huston, Maker of 
Magic RC 12595 



Ladies and Gentlemen Lenny 
Bruce RC 8604 

by Albert Goldman 



10 



10 



Kanin, Gar son 10 

Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, 
Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, 
Movie-Makers and Moneymakers, 
Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and 
Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex 
Symbols RC 13627 

Kaplan, Justin 23 

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, A 
Biography RC 11096 

Kotsilibas-Davis, James 9 

Great Times, Good Times 
RC 12776 



10 



LaGuardia, Robert 11 

Monty: A Biography of 
Montgomery Clift RC 12331 

Landay, Eileen 8 

Black Film Stars RC 9215 

Lane, Margaret 24 

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A 
Biography RC 13395 

Lemmon: A Biography RC 10296 10 

by Don Widener 



Leslie, Anita 

Clare Sheridan RC 11591 



The Life of Samuel Johnson 
RC 12304 

by James Boswell 



15 



Levenson, Sam 9 

Everything but Money RC 9934 

Lewis, R. W. B. 21 

Edith Wharton: A Biography 
RC 9775 

Libman, Lillian 35 

And Music at the Close: 
Stravinsky's Last Years, A Personal 
Memoir RC 8978 

The Life and Legend of Gene 22 

Fowler RC 12603 

by H. Allen Smith 

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 22 

RC 10284 

by Elizabeth Gaskell 



22 



57 



Index 



Cassettes 



Lindsay, Cynthia 
Dear Boris: The Life of William 
Henry Pratt A.K.A. Boris 
Karloff RC 12731 

Long Live the King: A Biography 
of Clark Gable RC 10422 
by Lyn Tornabene 



MacLaine, Shirley 

You Can Get There from 

Here RC 9099 



Mann, Katia 

Unwritten Memories RC 9206 



9 Marks, Milliard 

Jack Benny RC 11448 



10 



Love, Laughter and Tears: My 1 1 

Hollywood Story RC 11755 
by Adela Rogers St. Johns 



M 

McKuen, Rod 22 

Finding My Father: One Man's 
Search for Identity RC 10537 



13 



The Mad World of William M. 31 

Gaines RC 7934 
by Frank Jacobs 

Madsen, Axel 22 

Hearts and Minds: The Common 
Journey of Simone de Beauvoir and 
Jean-Paul Sartre RC 11967 

Malcolm Lowry: A Biography 23 

RC 9786 

by Douglas Day 



24 



Marlene: The Life of Marlene 
_ Dietrich RC 12609 by Charles 
11 Higham 



Mary Cassatt RC 9842 
by Nancy Hale 



Maurois, Andre 
Byron RC 11931 



Maxine Cheshire, Reporter 

RC 12279 

by Maxine Cheshire 



Mencken, H. L. 
Happy Days, 1880-1892 
RC 10681 



Mencken, H. L. 
Heathen Days, 1890-1936 
RC 10403 



11 



Martin, Mary 12 

My Heart Belongs RC 9518 

Marx, Arthur 9 

Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man 
behind the Myth RC 13242 



15 



Mary Pickf ord and Douglas 1 1 

Fairbanks: The Most Popular 

Couple the World Has Ever 

Known RC 11129 
by Booton Herndon 

Massey, Raymond 13 

When I Was Young RC 10895 



21 



31 



30 



31 



58 



Index Cassettes 



Mencken, H. L. 31 

Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 
RC 10375 

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain 23 

RC 11096 

by Justin Kaplan 

Mommie Dearest RC 12943 11 

by Christina Crawford 

Monty: A Biography of 11 

Montgomery Clift RC 12331 

by Robert LaGuardia 

Motoviloff, Ellen 36 

The Jackson Five RC 9186 



Murphy, Richard W. 
The World of Cezanne, 
1839-1906 RC 12730 



My Autobiography RC 8867 

by Charles Chaplin 



16 



12 



N 



A New Kind of Country 

RC 12702 

by Dorothy Oilman 



Norma RC 10979 

by Norma Zimmer 



On Stage, Elvis Presley 
RC 10274 

by Kathleen Bowman 



23 



Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 31 

RC 10375 

by H. L. Mencken 



36 



Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be 12 
RC 12248 

by Simone Signoret 



o 



36 



My Heart Belongs 

by Mary Martin 



RC 9518 



My Life with Elvis 
by Becky Yancey 



RC 11130 



Myself When Young: The Shaping 
of a Writer RC 11302 

by Daphne du Maurier 



12 



36 



My Side: The Autobiography of 12 

Ruth Gordon RC 10331 

by Ruth Gordon 



23 



P 



Paintbox on the Frontier: The 15 

Life and Times of George Caleb 
Bingham RC 12769 

by Alberta Wilson Constant 



Papa: A Personal Memoir 
RC 11159 

by Gregory H. Hemingway 



Part on, Margaret 

Journey through a Lighted Room 

RC 7706 



23 



31 



59 



Index 



Cassettes 



Perils, Vivian 35 

Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral 
History RC 10338 

Peters, Margot 24 

Unquiet Soul: A Biography of 
Charlotte Bronte RC 9782 

Pike, Charles E. 9 

The Fonz: The Henry Winkler 
Story RC 12574 



Prideaux, Tom 

The World of Delacroix, 

1798-1863 RC 12774 



R 



Rather, Dan 

The Camera Never Blinks: 
Adventures of a TV 
Journalist RC 10834 



Rex: An Autobiography 

RC 12681 

by Rex Harrison 



Russell, John 

The World of Matisse, 

1869-1954 RC 11962 



16 



30 



Renoir, Jean 15 

Renoir, My Father RC 10474 

Renoir, My Father RC 10474 15 

by Jean Renoir 



12 



Rudyard Kipling RC 13328 23 

by Lord Frederick Birkenhead 



16 



St. Johns, Adela Rogers 11 

Love, Laughter and Tears: My 
Hollywood Story RC 11755 

Samuel Johnson RC 12193 23 

by W. Jackson Bate 



Saroyan, William 
Chance Meetings 



RC 12743 



The Story of the Trapp Family 

Singers RC 7047 

by Maria Augusta Trapp 



21 



The Search: A Biography of Leo 24 
Tolstoy RC 10409 
by Sara Carroll 

The Shaun Cassidy Scrapbook: 36 

A Biography RC 12975 
by Connie Berman 

Signer et, Simone 12 

Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to 
Be RC 12248 

Sinatra: An Unauthorized 36 

Biography RC 10050 
by Earl Wilson 



Smith, H. Allen 22 

The Life and Legend of Gene 
Fowler RC 12603 

The Story of Stevie Wonder 36 

RC 11600 

by James Haskins 



37 



60 



Index Cassettes 



The Tale of Beatrix Potter: 
A Biography RC 13395 
by Margaret Lane 



Thomas, Bob 

Walt Disney: An American 

Original RC 11548 



Thompson, Charles 
Bing: The Authorized 
Biography RC 12783 



Unwritten Memories RC 9206 

by Katia Mann 



24 



Talking to Myself: A Memoir of 24 
My Times RC 10790 

by Studs Terkel 

Terkel, Studs 24 

Talking to Myself: A Memoir of 
My Times RC 10790 



13 



35 



Tornabene, Lyn 11 

Long Live the King: A Biography 
of Clark Gable RC 10422 

Trapp, Maria Augusta 37 

The Story of the Trapp Family 
Singers RC 7047 



u 



Unquiet Soul: A Biography of 24 

Charlotte Bronte RC 9782 

by Margot Peters 



24 



Ustinov, Peter 
Dear Me RC 11939 



Vivien Leigh: A Biography 
RC 10865 

by Anne Edwards 



W 



Walt Disney: An American 
Original RC 11548 

by Bob Thomas 



Will Rogers: A Biography 
RC 9823 

by Donald Day 



Wilson, Earl 

Sinatra: An Unauthorized 

Biography RC 10050 



12 



13 



When I Was Young RC 10895 13 

by Raymond Massey 

Widener, Don 10 

Lemmon: A Biography RC 10296 



13 



36 



The World of Cezanne, 1839-1906 16 

RC 12730 

by Richard W. Murphy 

The World of Delacroix, 1798-1863 16 

RC 12774 

by Tom Prideaux 



61 



Index 



Cassettes, Braille 



The World of Matisse, 1869-1954 16 B 
RC 11962 

by John Russell 



Wright, Richard 

American Hunger RC 10660 



Zimmer, Norma 
Norma RC 10979 



Braille 



Atkins, Chet 

Country Gentleman BR 2808 



20 



Yancey, Becky 36 

My Life with Elvis RC 11130 

You Can Get There from Here 13 

RC9099 

by Shirley MacLaine 



36 



Albaret, Celeste 26 

Monsieur Proust BR 3325 

An Artist and the Pope BR 1033 16 

by Curtis Bill Pepper 



37 



Baez, Joan 
Daybreak BR 948 



Bowen, Catherine 
Family Portrait BR 1342 



Bring on the Empty Horses 
BR 2985 

by David Niven 



Bruckner BR 1919 

by Hans Hubert Schonzeler 



Cagney by Cagney 

by James Cagney 



BR 3104 



37 



Beethoven: A Documentary Study 37 
BR 2111 

compiled and edited 

by H. C. Robbins Landon 

Beginning Again: An 24 

Autobiography of the Years 
1911-1918 BR1384 

by Leonard Woolf 

Bob Dylan: A Retrospective 37 

BR 2091 

compiled by Craig McGregor 



25 



Bowman, Kathleen 39 

On Stage, Johnny Cash BR 3537 



13 



37 



13 



Index Braille 



Cagney, James 13 

Cagney by Cagney BR 3104 

The Cole Porter Story, As Told to 37 
Richard G. Hubler BR 422 

by Cole Porter 

The Comedy World of Stan Laurel 14 
BR 2713 

by John McCabe 

Composers of Tomorrow's Music: 37 
A Non-Technical Introduction to 
the Musical Avant-Garde 
Movement BR 1945 

by David Ewen 



Coolidge, Olivia E. 
Eugene O'Neill BR 677 



Darling, Amanda 
Lola Montez BR 1954 



Daybreak BR 948 

by Joan Baez 



Divas BR2308 

by Winthrop Sargeant 



25 



Country Gentleman BR 2808 37 

by Chet Atkins 



D 



28 



Davies, Marion 31 

The Times We Had: Life with 
William Randolph Hearst 
BR 3514 



37 



38 



Downhill All the Way: An 25 

Autobiography of the Years 
1919-1939 BR 1385 
by Leonard Woolf 



E 



Einstein, Alfred 

Mozart: His Character, His 

Work BR1997 



Eugene O'Neill BR 677 

by Olivia E. Coolidge 



Ewen, David 

With a Song in His Heart: The 

Story of Richard Rodgers BR 148 



Family Portrait BR 1342 
by Catherine Bowen 



Fonteyn, Margot 
Margot Fonteyn: 
Autobiography BR 2850 



38 



Emily Dickinson: Her Letter to 25 

the World BR 310 

by Polly Longsworth 



25 



Ewen, David 37 

Composers of Tomorrow's Music: 
A Non-Technical Introduction to 
the Musical Avant-Garde 
Movement BR 1945 



39 



25 



28 



63 



Index 



Braille 



Frederic Chopin BR 153 

by Victor Seroff 



G 



George Gershwin BR 149 

by Edward Jablonski 



Gilot, Francoise 

Life with Picasso BR 215 



Goon for Lunch BR 3149 

by Harry Secombe 



Gordon, Edwin 
Mark Twain BR 531 



Greene, Graham 

A Sort of Life BR 1777 



Greenfeld, Howard 
Marc Chagall BR 909 



38 Growing: An Autobiography of the 
Years 1904-1911 BR 1383 
bv Leonard Woolf 



25 



Gable and Lombard BR 2728 14 

by Warren G. Harris 



38 



Gill, Derek 38 

If You Could See What I Hear 
BR 2848 



16 



Goodbye to All That BR 408 25 

by Robert Graves 



14 



26 



Grandma Moses: My Life's History 16 

BR121 

by Anna Mary Robertson Moses 

Graves, Robert 25 

Goodbye to All That BR 408 



27 



H 



Hangen, Patricia 31 

Tell Him That I Heard BR 3435 

Harris, Warren G. 14 

Gable and Lombard BR 2728 



Heartland BR 3276 
by Mort Sahl 



14 



Henry David Thoreau: A Critical 25 
Study BR67 

by Mark Van Doren 

Higham, Charles 14 

Kate: The Life of Katherine 
Hepburn BR 2937 



I 



If You Could See What I Hear 38 

BR 2848 

by Tom Sullivan and Derek Gill 

Isadora Duncan: The Russian Years 27 
BR 3509 

by Ilia Ilich Shneider 



16 Jablonski, Edward 

George Gershwin BR 149 



38 



64 



Index Braille 



The Journey, Not the Arrival 25 

Matters: An Autobiography of the 
Years 1939-1969 BR 1386 

by Leonard Woolf 



K 



Kaplan, Justin 26 

Mark Twain and His World 
BR 2748 



Kate: The Life of Katherine 
Hepburn BR 2937 
by Charles Higham 



Lake, Carlton 

Life with Picasso BR 215 



Life with Picasso BR 215 

by Francoise Gilot and 
Carlton Lake 



Live or Die BR 1180 

by Anne Sexton 



Lola Montez BR 1954 

by Amanda Darling 



14 



16 



Langston Hughes: A Biography 26 

BR 1013 

by Milton Meltzer 



16 



26 



Lives of the Great Composers 38 

BR 1993 

by Harold C. Schonberg 



28 



Longsworth, Polly 25 

Emily Dickinson: Her Letter to the 
World BR310 

Louis Armstrong BR 2121 38 

by Hugues Panassie 



M 



McCabe, John 14 

The Comedy World of Stan 
Laurel BR 2713 



The Marble Foot: An 
Autobiography, 1905-1938 
BR 3578 
by Peter Quennell 



Marc Chagall BR 909 

by Howard Greenfeld 



Mark Twain BR 531 

by Edwin Gordon 



Meltzer, Milton 
Langston Hughes: A 
Biography BR 1013 



26 



16 



Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography 28 
BR 2850 

by Margot Fonteyn 



26 



Mark Twain and His World 26 

BR 2748 

by Justin Kaplan 

Martin, Mary 14 

My Heart Belongs BR 3177 



26 



65 



Index 



Braille 



Memoirs BR 2409 

by William Butler Yeats 



Monsieur Proust BR 3325 

by Celeste Albaret 



The Moon's a Balloon: 
Reminiscences BR 2221 

by David Niven 



Mozart: His Character, His Work 
BR 1997 

by Alfred Einstein 



26 



Momaday, N. Scott 27 

The Names: A Memoir BR 3454 



26 



14 



Moraes, Dom F. My Son's Father: 26 
A Poet's Autobiography BR 1179 

Moses, Anna Mary Robertson 16 

Grandma Moses: My Life's 
History BR 121 

Mother Goddam: The Story of the 14 
Career of Bette Davis BR 2751 
by Whitney Stine 



38 



Myra Hess, By Her Friends 
BR810 

compiled by Denise Lassimonne 



The Names: A Memoir 

by N. Scott Momaday 



BR 3454 



Niven, David 

Bring on the Empty Horses 

BR 2985 



Niven, David 

The Moon's a Balloon: 

Reminiscences BR 2221 



O 



On Stage, Johnny Cash BR 3537 
by Kathleen Bowman 



39 



27 



13 



14 



39 



My America, Your America 38 

BR 3536 

by Lawrence Welk 



My Heart Belongs BR 3177 14 

by Mary Martin 



My Son's Father: A Poet's 
Autobiography BR 1179 

by Dom F. Moraes 



26 



Panassie, Hugues 38 

Louis Armstrong BR 2121 

Pepper, Curtis Bill 16 

An Artist and the Pope BR 1033 



Porter, Cole 

The Cole Porter Story, As Told to 

Richard G. Hubler BR 422 



37 



66 



Index Braille 



Q 



Quennell, Peter 
The Marble Foot: An 
Autobiography, 1905-1938 
BR 3578 



Sahl, Mort 
Heartland BR 3276 



Sargeant, Winthrop 
Divas BR2308 



Schonzeler, Hans Hubert 
Bruckner BR 1919 



Scriabin BR 2065 

by Alfred Swan 



Seroff, Victor 

Frederic Chopin BR 153 



26 



14 



38 



Schonberg, Harold C. 38 

Lives of the Great Composers 
BR 1993 



37 



39 



Secombe, Harry 14 

Goon for Lunch BR 3149 



38 



Siohan, Robert 
Stravinsky BR 1893 



Sitwell, Edith 
Taken Care Of: An 
Autobiography BR 197 



A Sort of Life BR 1777 
by Graham Greene 



Stravinsky BR 1893 

by Robert Siohan 



Swan, Alfred 
Scriabin BR 2065 



39 



27 



Smart Aleck: The Wit, World, 27 

and Life of Alexander Woollcott 

BR 3474 

by Howard Teichmann 



27 



Sowing: An Autobiography of the 27 
Years 1880-1904 BR 1382 

by Leonard Woolf 

Stine, Whitney 14 

Mother Goddam: The Story of the 
Career of Bette Davis BR 2751 



39 



Sullivan, Tom 38 

If You Could See What I Hear 
BR 2848 



39 



Sexton, Anne 

Live or Die BR 1180 



26 



Shneider, Ilia Ilich 

Isadora Duncan: The Russian 

Years BR 3509 



27 



Taken Care Of: An Autobiography 
BR197 

by Edith Sitwell 



27 



67 



Index 



Braille 



Teichmann, Howard 27 

Smart Aleck: The Wit, World, and 
Life of Alexander Woolicott 
BR 3474 



Tell Him That I Heard 

by Patricia Hangen 



BR 3435 



31 



The Times We Had: Life with 
William Randolph Hearst 
BR 3514 

by Marion Davies 



31 



With a Song in His Heart: The 39 

Story of Richard Rodgers BR 148 
by David Ewen 

Woolf , Leonard 24 

Beginning Again: An 
Autobiography of the Years 
1911-1918 BR1384 

Woolf, Leonard 25 

Downhill All the Way: An 
Autobiography of the Years 
1919-1939 BR1385 

Woolf, Leonard 25 

Growing: An Autobiography of the 
Years 1904-1911 BR 1383 



Van Doren, Mark 

Henry David Thoreau: A Critical 

Study BR 67 



25 



Woolf, Leonard 25 

The Journey, Not the Arrival 
Matters: An Autobiography of the 
Years 1939-1969 BR 1386 



Woolf, Leonard 

Sowing: An Autobiography of the 

Years 1880-1904 BR 1382 



27 



W 



Welk, Lawrence 

My America, Your America 

BR 3536 



38 



Yeats, William Butler 

Memoirs BR 2409 



26 



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D RD 6040 D RD 6936 
D RD 6064 D RD 7047 
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D RC 7706 


D RC 8609 


D RD 6913 D RD 8066 


D RC 7934 


D RC 8655 



D RC 8851 
D RC 8867 
D RC 8978 
D RC 9099 
D RC 9186 
D RC 9206 
D RC 9215 
D RC 9217 
D RC 9518 
D RC 9775 
D RC 9782 
D RC 9786 
D RC 9823 
D RC 9842 
D RC 9934 
D RC 9950 
D RC 10050 
D RC 10054 
D RC 10274 
D RC 10284 
D RC 10296 
D RC 10301 
D RC 10331 
D RC 10338 
D RC 10375 
D RC 10403 
D RC 10409 
D RC 10422 
D RC 10474 
D RC 10537 
D RC 10573 
D RC 10660 
D RC 10681 
D RC 10790 
D RC 10834 
D RC 10842 
D RC 10865 
D RC 10868 
D RC 10895 
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D RC 11096 
D RC 11129 
D RC 11130 
D RC 11159 
D RC 11302 
D RC 11448 
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D RC 11591 
D RC 11600 
D RC 11755 
D RC 11923 
D RC 11931 
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D RC 12731 
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D RC 12776 
D RC 12783 
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D BR 121 


D BR 2065 


D BR 148 


D BR 2091 


D BR 149 


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D BR 153 


D BR 2121 


D BR 197 


D BR 2221 


D BR 215 


D BR 2308 


D BR 310 


D BR 2409 


D BR 408 


D BR 2713 


D BR 422 


D BR 2728 


D BR 531 


D BR 2748 


D BR 677 


D BR 2751 


D BR 810 


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D BR 909 


D BR 2848 


D BR 948 


D BR 2850 


D BR 1013 


D BR 2937 


D BR 1033 


D BR 2985 


D BR 1179 


D BR 3104 


D BR 1180 


D BR3149 


D BR 1342 


D BR 3177 


D BR 1382 


D BR 3276 


D BR 1383 


D BR 3325 


D BR 1384 


D BR 3435 


D BR 1385 


D BR 3454 


D BR 1386 


D BR 3474 


D BR 1777 


D BR 3509 


D BR 1893 


D BR 3514 


D BR 1919 


D BR 3536 


D BR 1945 


D BR 3537 


D BR 1954 


D BR 3578 


D BR 1993 





About the Free 
Reading Program 



The National Library Service for the 
Blind and Physically Handicapped 
(NLS) loans books and magazines to 
individuals who have problems reading 
because of a visual or physical limita- 
tion, temporary or permanent. 

Books, playback equipment, head- 
phones, and other aids are delivered by 
mail. Book descriptions, catalogs, and 
bibliographies such as this one are also 
mailed regularly to inform readers of 
new materials available. 

No postage is required to borrow or 
return books, equipment, and other 
materials, and all materials are free. 

Thousands of books on discs, cassettes, 
and in braille are available through a 
network of cooperating libraries. Fic- 
tion and nonfiction selections include 



classics, romances, science fiction, 
biographies, bestsellers, gothic novels, 
how-to books, and many more. 
Popular magazines are converted into 
discs, cassettes, and braille, and mailed 
to subscribers directly from producers. 
Music services are provided directly 
from NLS. 

Eligibility for the program is deter- 
mined by the inability to see well 
enough to read a conventional print 
book or to hold a book and turn pages. 
Individuals wishing service need a brief 
statement describing their disability 
from a competent authority such as a 
medical doctor, nurse, optometrist, 
ophthalmologist, staff member of a 
health care institution, or a librarian. 



For specific eligibility requirements and 
more information, write to the 
National Library Service for the Blind 
and Physically Handicapped, Library 
of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20542. 







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