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Christopher Bigsby is a British literary analyst and novelist, with more than forty books to his credit. Earlier in his writing career, his books were published under the name C. W. E. Bigsby.

Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Nottingham, he is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. He is also an occasional contributor to BBC Radio, and presented Kaleidoscope (Radio 4) for eight years in the 1980s. During this time, he collaborated with the writer Malcolm Bradbury on an 8-part comedy series called 'Patterson', which followed the experiences of a new lecturer at a provincial university, and may have been partly autobiographical. Unusually this series was broadcast on Radio Three. His first book was A Study of Contemporary American Drama, 1959-66 (1967). One of Bigsby's recent novels, first published in March 2002, is the well-reviewed Beautiful Dreamer. His latest novel is One Hundred Days, One Hundred Nights, published August 23, 2007 by Methuen (ISBN: 0413776565).

Bigsby is also considered one of the world's best analysts of American theatre, and in particular the definitive commentator on playwright Arthur Miller. Bigsby's books on Miller include, but are not limited to, Remembering Arthur Miller (2005), Arthur Miller & Company (1990), The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller (1997), and the definitive work on the great American playwright, the 514-page A Critical Study (2005). In November 2008, Bigsby published Arthur Miller, a definitive biography of the eminent American playwright, based on boxes of papers Miller made available to him before his death in 2005, as well as countless interviews and conversations during a friendship with the playwright that lasted over three decades. Harvard University Press published the 739-page biography of Miller in the United States on May 21, 2009 and titled Arthur Miller 1915-1962. The second volume of Bigsby's biography of the playwright, Arthur Miller 1962-2005, is scheduled for release in February 2011.

In 2006 Bigsby published The Chain of Memory, a meditative study on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. The book includes essays on Jean Améry, Tadeusz Borowski, Anne Frank, Rolf Hochhuth, Primo Levi, Arthur Miller, W.G. Sebald, Elie Wiesel and Peter Weiss

Bigsby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
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Total Books: 43
Ishmael
2019 - Ishmael (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781088621028
ISBN-10: 1088621023
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Hotel
2016 - The Hotel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781539779490
ISBN-10: 1539779491
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Flint
2015 - Flint (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781517350796
ISBN-10: 1517350794
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Ballygoran
2014 - Ballygoran (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781505468205
ISBN-10: 1505468205
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Viewing America TwentyFirst Century Television Drama
Viewing America TwentyFirstCentury Television Drama
Arthur Miller 19622005
Poe or the Revenant
2012 - Poe or the Revenant (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781480116931
ISBN-10: 1480116939
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Arthur Miller
2010 - Arthur Miller (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780674057081
ISBN-10: 0674057082
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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Arthur Miller The Authorised Biography
2009 - Arthur Miller the Authorised Biography (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780297854418
ISBN-10: 0297854410
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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One Hundred Days One Hundred Nights
2008 - One Hundred Days One Hundred Nights (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780413776563
ISBN-10: 0413776565
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Neil LaBute Stage and Cinema
2008 - Neil Labute Stage and Cinema [Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780521712859
ISBN-10: 0521712858
Genres: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Entertainment
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The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson
2007 - The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson [Cambridge Companions to Literature] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780521685061
ISBN-10: 0521685060
Genres: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
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Beautiful Dreamer
2006 - Beautiful Dreamer (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781597223638
ISBN-10: 1597223638
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Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust The Chain of Memory
2006 - Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust the Chain of Memory [Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780521869348
ISBN-10: 052186934X
Genres: Arts & Photography, History, Literature & Fiction
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Beautiful Dreamer A Novel
2006 - Beautiful Dreamer a Novel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780312355838
ISBN-10: 0312355831
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 1.5/5 Stars.
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Arthur Miller A Critical Study
2005 - Arthur Miller a Critical Study (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780521605533
ISBN-10: 0521605539
Genres: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction
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The Portable Arthur Miller
2003 - The Portable Arthur Miller [Penguin Classics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780142437551
ISBN-10: 0142437557
Genres: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Contemporary American Playwrights
2000 - Contemporary American Playwrights (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521661089
ISBN-10: 0521661080
Genres: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction, Substores
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Hester
1999 - Hester (Other)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780785793007
ISBN-10: 0785793003
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Still Lives
1996 - Still Lives [Fiction - General] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780094764507
ISBN-10: 0094764506
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1996 - Pearl (Paperback)
1972 - Dada and Surrealism [Critical Idiom] (Hardcover)Paperback
Edward Albee [Writers & Critics] (Paperback)
Tom Stoppard [Writers & Their Work] (Paperback)