William Elliott Hazelgrove, Author Pantonne Press $6.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-9630052-9-8
Although this coming-of-age novel emerges as an updated version of A Separate Peace , the book's stereotypical characters and strained symbolism make it somewhat less enticing than John Knowles's classic. Narrator Brenton Heathersfield recalls his...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Elliott Hazelgrove, Author Pantonne Press $18.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-9630052-8-1
Set in 1945, this skillfully crafted novel by the author of Ripples chronicles the coming-of-age of Lee Hartwell, the pubescent son of a Richmond, Va., lawyer, whose close-knit family is torn apart by WWII and its aftermath. The adult Lee narrates...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Elliott Hazelgrove, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-10639-8
Admirers of Hazelgrove's highly regarded earlier fiction (Ripples; Tobacco Sticks) may be dismayed by his overripe prose in this dark tale of Southern racial hatred and murder spanning three generations of an aristocratic Virginia family. Haunted by
READ FULL REVIEW
William Elliott Hazelgrove. Morgan James/Koehler (Ingram, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (252p) ISBN 978-1-938467-59-2
While ostensibly a contemporary baseball story, Hazelgrove's expansive fifth novel also tackles issues of class, immigration law, and inequity. Thirteen-year-old Ricky Hernandez has a 75 mph pitch and dreams of making the freshman baseball team in...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Hazelgrove. Regnery History, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-62157-475-0
Novelist Hazelgrove (Jackpine) turns his attention to nonfiction history with less than stellar results, despite his fascinating choice of topic. In 1919, while President Woodrow Wilson was on an ambitious public relations tour to shore up support...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Elliott Hazelgrove. Rowman & Littlefield, $36 (250p) ISBN 978-1-4422-7226-2
Hazelgrove (Forging a President: How the Wild West Created Teddy Roosevelt) adds little insight to the life and legacy of Al Capone in this superfluous history of the end of the notorious mobster’s career in the lead-up to the 1933 World’s Fair in...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Elliott Hazelgrove. Rowman & Littlefield, $26 (210p) ISBN 978-1-5381-4290-5
Against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Hazelgrove (Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson) briskly charts the career of scammer Cassie Chadwick. Born Elizabeth Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she forged checks as a young teen, was...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Elliott Hazelgrove. Rowman & Littlefield, $32 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5381-8716-6
In this fine-grained account, historian Hazelgrove (Writing Gatsby) chronicles the mass hysteria that accompanied Orson Welles’s infamous 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Hazelgrove presents Welles as an actor of immense...
READ FULL REVIEW
William Elliott Hazelgrove. Bloomsbury Academic, $27 (296p) ISBN 979-8-8818-0038-3
Novelist and historian Hazelgrove (Hemingway’s Attic) recounts the fate of American cyclists Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin, who were slain by terrorists in Tajikistan in 2018, in this chilling true crime tale. Drawing from the couple’s blog and...
READ FULL REVIEW
