Family Matters
dreams I couldn't share - and how a dysfunctional family became America's darling, The Addams Family
Published on 15. November 2022
Book
Hardback
436 pages
979-8-218-02539-7 (ISBN)
Description
FAMILY MATTERS traces the links between myth and fact we make to understand ourselves in a multi-generational saga with both a private ending and a public climax in the original The Addams Family, 1964-66.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-218-02539-7 (9798218025397)
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My poems, stories and articles have appeared widely in both American and English journals. Books of poetry include Wrestling With The Angel (1990), Becoming Human (2001), Human/Nature (2006), Seasons of Defiance (2010), which placed as a finalist in the 8th. National USA Book Awards, Transformations combining art and poetry (2013), and Homecomings (2015). Elemental Natures, selected lyrics, sequences, and prose, appeared in 2020. I am a recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and various other scholarshipsAmong plays, Rasputin and Gambits were produced at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Time's Up and Fox, Hound, and Huntress were premiered in Los Angeles; publications include Time's Up; Fox, Hound & Huntress; and Time's Up and Other Plays.I founded graduate playwrighting and the graduate screenwriting programs at USC and California State University, Northridge, respectively. I have published a screenwriting textbook, The Understructure of Writing for Film & Television, and A Poetics for Screenwriters, as well as The Death and Life of Drama, reflections on writing and human nature.My works also include a novel, Second Chances (2001). A children's novel, Orpheus Rising, is forthcoming in the fall, 2021, and a shorter children's book, The Tale of Brian and the House Painter Mervyn in the spring, 2022.My family is split between Los Angeles, where I helped establish the California State Park System in the Santa Monica Mountains, and London, where a married daughter lives in Crouch End, the family seat for generations on my wife's side.