Everything about Christopher Bigsby totally explained
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's 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. His first book was (
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 the best analysts of 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 (
2005). Bigsby is currently working on
Arthur Miller: The Authorised Biography, based on boxes of papers Miller made available to him before his death in 2005. The book will be published in November 2008.
In 2006 Bigsby published, 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
He has been elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature (2007).
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