Samuel F. Pickering, Author . Univ. of Tennessee $26 (190p) ISBN 978-1-57233-147-1
The author of several books of essays and the inspiration for the teacher in Dead Poets Sociey
offers another set of meandering journeys of imagination and discernment. A married professor (of English at the University of Connecticut) with family,...
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Samuel F. Pickering, Author . Atlantic Monthly $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87113-699-2
Pickering, an English professor at the University of Connecticut and personal essayist (Waltzing the Magpies
; The Best of Pickering
; etc.), serves up pedagogical advice couched in folksy language and peppered with personal anecdotes, tall tales...
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Samuel F. Pickering, Author University Press of Florida $24.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-8130-1482-1
Love him or hate him, you've got to credit Pickering with honesty. ""My essays meander,"" he admits in the first of the 11 slices of life in this, his eighth collection (Trespassing). Actually, that's an understatement. Pickering's essays are like...
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Samuel F. Pickering, Author University of Georgia Press $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8203-0906-4
A sequel to A Continuing Education, Pickering's second collection of essays will again earn him laurels. The 15 pieces are quietly humorous, tender, nostalgic observations of a family man. Following publication of his first book, his neighbors...
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Samuel F. Pickering, Author University Press of New England $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87451-561-9
Pickering, the model for the charismatic English teacher in the 1989 film Dead Poet ' s Society , presents a fourth collection of essays marked by a homespun, conversational style. (Aug.)
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Samuel F. Pickering, Author University of Missouri Press $24.95 (177p) ISBN 978-0-8262-0801-9
Pickering is the teacher who inspired the film Dead Poets Society. In this collection of essays that track his experiences in the months following the release of the film, he explores the humorous aspects of unexpected celebrity and the changes it...
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Samuel F. Pickering, Author University of Missouri Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8262-0869-9
Twelve essays from the teacher who inspired Robin Williams's character in the film Dead Poets Society tell how he dealt with the celebrity that the film brought, while revealing his warm and realistic appreciation of life. (Aug.)
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Samuel F. Pickering, Author University Press of New England $24 (260p) ISBN 978-0-87451-640-1
Essayist Pickering ( Let It Ride ) has the gift of enjoying the moment, whether he is rambling through the woods near his Connecticut home or chatting with his seatmate on a plane flight. The English professor (at the University of Connecticut) who...
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Samuel F. Pickering, Author, Jr. Samuel Pickering, Author University of Missouri Press $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-8262-1043-2
It's hard to identify the charismatic teacher portrayed by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society with the archly pedantic persona of the author of this account of a sabbatical year in Perth. A university professor of English in Connecticut, Pickering,
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