Joan Mellen, Author Potomac Books $29.95 (608p) ISBN 978-1-57488-973-4
In her account of Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation of and obsession with the JFK assassination, Mellen brings an astonishing amount of information to light, but even those very familiar with the topic will have trouble...
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Joan Mellen, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-55611-100-6
Written, by admission of the author, in part to rebut John Feinstein's A Season on the Brink , the bestselling attack on Indiana basketball coach Knight, this no-warts biography is an encomium to the man and his philosophy. Temple University English
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Joan Mellen, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $35 (670p) ISBN 978-0-374-18098-0
Mellen's intimate, admiring, captivating biography of Boyle (1902-1992), short story writer, poet, novelist, memoirist and political activist, follows her egocentric trajectory as a ``citizen of the planet.'' Fiercely ambitious, romantic, Minnesota-b
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Joan Mellen, Author HarperCollins Publishers $32 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-018339-4
Dependent upon Lillian Hellman's writing income at the close of his life after drinking and wenching himself into literary and sexual impotence, Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon, has survived as an artist while she is remembered as
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Joan Mellen. Skyhorse (Norton, dist.), $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-62087-467-7
In this plodding tale of political intrigue and greed, Temple University professor Mellen (A Farewell to Justice) recounts a story of the ways that the wealthy and powerful influence political decisions that protect their self-interest. In 1951,...
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Joan Mellen. Bloomsbury, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-62040-806-3
Mellen (The Great Game in Cuba), professor of English at Temple University, takes a vicious swing at President Lyndon Johnson, positing—with limited evidence—that there is no perfidy to which Johnson did not succumb. Mellen suggests that Johnson...
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