| 词条 | Vincent Sheean |
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James Vincent Sheean (December 5, 1899, Pana, Illinois – March 16, 1975,[1] Arolo, Frz. of Leggiuno, Italy) was an American journalist and novelist. CareerSheean's most famous work was Personal History (New York: Doubleday, 1935). It won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Distinguished Biography of 1935.[2][3][4] Film producer Walter Wanger acquired the political memoir and made it the basis for his 1940 film production Foreign Correspondent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Sheean served as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune during the Spanish Civil War.[5] Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis (1939) directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline. He translated Ève Curie's biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1939), into English. Sheean wrote Oscar Hammerstein I: Life and Exploits of an Impresario (1955) as well as a controversial biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy and Red (1963). He studied at the University of Chicago, becoming part of a literary circle which included Glenway Wescott, Yvor Winters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Janet Lewis while he was there.[6] Vincent and Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean were friends of Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen; they spent time together on Ragged Island off the coast of Maine during the summer of 1945. BooksPartial list
Notes1. ^[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/120095823.html?dids=120095823:120095823&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=MAR+17%2C+1975&author=By+Jean+R.+HaileyWashington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Vincent+Sheean+Dies%3B+Author%2C+Traveler Vincent Sheean Dies; Author, Traveler] (The Washington Post pay per view) 2. ^"Books and Authors", The New York Times, 1936-04-12, page BR12. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2007). 3. ^"Lewis is Scornful of Radio Culture: ...", The New York Times, 1936-05-12, page 25. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851-2007). 4. ^Biography was separately recognized in 1935 and 1936, then subsumed in general Nonfiction. 5. ^Cecil Eby, Between the Bullet and the Lie: American Volunteers and the Spanish Civil War (New York: Holt, Rineheart and Winston, 1969), p. 237 6. ^https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1934/10/my-friend-the-jew/306260/ 7. ^Book list from first edition of "Not Peace but a Sword" References{{Reflist}}External links
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