Ronald Hayman, Author Yale University Press $92 (288p) ISBN 978-0-300-05414-9
Hayman ( Proust: A Biography ) analyzes the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) in a study that emphasizes the extent to which Williams based his plays on the events of his life. Born into a Mississippi family...
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Ronald Hayman, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $24.95 (246p) ISBN 978-1-58234-008-1
Hayman, respected British biographer of Sartre, Brecht, Kafka, Beckett and Sylvia Plath, has produced an intriguing albeit speculative psychobiography of Hitler that links the Fuhrer's warped sexuality to his demonic destructiveness. Its immediate...
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Ronald Hayman, Author Scribner Book Company $35 (672p) ISBN 978-0-684-19319-9
German novelist Thomas Mann (1875-1955) played an almost heroic role in keeping German culture alive, and in opposing Hitler, after Germany had surrendered to Nazism; yet this major, dramatic biography reveals a writer who was deeply ambivalent...
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Ronald Hayman, Author W. W. Norton & Company $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-393-01967-4
""The S.S. men are being transformed into a caste of knights ruling sixty million natives. [T]here is no more ideal form of government than a decent form of oligarchy,"" wrote Carl Jung of the German Nazis in the mid-1930s. One of the many strengths
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