Recorded conversations:

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:

In Search of Genius, interviews with Picasso, Cocteau, Dalí, Lurçat, Robert Graves, Marcel Marceau, and others

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

The Devil's Marchioness, historical fiction based on the life of the notorious Marquise de Brinvilliers

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"

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, finds—to her surprise—that 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:

The Sherry Royalty, an illustrated history of the great sherry-making families of Spain

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.      Amazon.com Title page from the encyclopedia