William March

Providing an exhaustive compendium of publications by and citations about Alabama-born writer William March, William March: An Annotated Checklist offers an invaluable resource that traces in meticulous detail the arc of March's writing, the popular and critical reception of his books and novels, and the abundant scholarship and criticism about March and his oeuvre. This deeply researched reference includes both primary materials, an exhaustive checklist of the forms and editions of each of March's works, and secondary materials, which include plays and films adapted from March's writing, biographical and critical articles, doctoral dissertations, and contemporary reviews of March's work. The reissue in 2015 of the novels in his Pearl County series--Come in at the Door, The Tallons, and The Looking-Glass--is part of a fresh wave of interest in March, one of the most influential American writers from the mid-1930s until his death in 1954.

Roy S. Simmonds was born in London, England in 1925. He was employed as a British Civil Servant and began working as an independent literary scholar in the 1970s. Simmonds was the author of The Two Worlds of William March, A Biographical and Critical Introduction of John Steinbeck, Edward J. O'Brien and His Role in the Rise of the American Short Story in the 1920s and 1930s, and John Steinbeck: The War Years, 1939-1945.