Recorded
conversations:


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Marcel Marceau
"Marcel Marceau Speaks," an impromptu
conversation on mime, recorded in English |
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Jean
Cocteau
"Jean Cocteau: A Self-Portrait, A Conversation
with William Fifield in French" / "Jean Cocteau: Un autoportrait,"
enregistré en français  |
Books, essays, and short
stories:
Nonfiction:
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In Search of Genius,
interviews with Picasso, Cocteau, Dalí, Lurçat, Robert Graves, Marcel Marceau, and
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Modigliani, an intimate
biography of the artist with insights into his life provided by members of his
family  |
Cocteau series:
The Cocteau series includes a bilingual transcript of the Times Two Audio recording, a
monograph originally published in the Columbia Essays on Modern Writers series, and a
book-length interview of the artist in French.
Radio scripts:
"Suspense" "Lights Out"
"Jeff Regan, Investigator"
Audio clips and script information for original
radio plays and an adaptation of an Agatha Christie story, written by William Fifield
during his career as a radio announcer and scriptwriter in the 1930s and 1940s 
Coming to the site:
These works will be posted to the site after
the publication of the nonfiction titles. Copies of the original editions are available
from BookFinder.com,
an online search service for out-of-print books.
Fiction:
Novels, published in the United States by Holt,
Dial, and Avon and in England by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Devil's Marchioness,
historical fiction based on the life of the notorious Marquise de Brinvilliers |
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Matadora, a novel about a
female bullfighter named Maruja, a "lyrical and often ironical story of a woman who
destroys bulls but is in turn destroyed in love" |
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The Sign of Taurus, a novel
set in Mexico about a Polish countess who is a Jewish refugee from the concentration
camps. Forced to earn her living by becoming a fortune teller, the countess, a skeptic,
findsto her surprisethat she has psychic powers. |
Shorter works:
Essays and magazine articles, from the Paris
Review to Penthouse
Short stories, including "The Fishermen of
Pátzcuaro," the winner of an O. Henry Memorial Award
William Fifield won the award in 1943 at the age
of 27; the other prizewinners that year were Eudora Welty and Dorothy Canfield.
Wine writings:
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The Sherry Royalty, an
illustrated history of the great sherry-making families of Spain |
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Encyclopedia of Wines &
Spirits (co-author with Alexis Lichine); this work was published by Knopf in several
editions. The book is not included in the collection but is available from Amazon's
suppliers of out-of-print books.
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Title page from the encyclopedia
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