Paul Alexander, Author, Martin E. Marty, Foreword by . Jossey-Bass $24.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-470-18396-0
Drawing on personal experiences and numerous interviews with individuals who practice Pentecostalism, Alexander, who teaches at Azusa Pacific University, attempts to provide insights into why the Pentecostal faith continues to grow by leaps and...
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Paul Alexander, Author . Wiley $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-471-22829-5
Alexander has written lives of Sylvia Plath and James Dean, but he became a political journalist in the 1990s and recently wrote several articles about Republican Senator McCain of Arizona for Rolling Stone.
The first two-thirds of this biography...
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Paul Alexander, Author Viking Books $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-81812-9
Nearly 30 years after Plath's (1932-1963) suicide, her troubled life proves to be fertile ground for biographers, as witness this work by Alexander (editor of Ariel Ascending ), which may be the most objective portrayal yet of the controversial...
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Paul Alexander, Author Penguin Books $12.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-14-010281-9
Alexander's beautifully fashioned biography records the troubled poet's vicissitudes with respect and sensitivity. Photos. (Sept.)
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Paul Alexander, Author Viking Books $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-84951-2
This is a juicy biography that looks at the events that shaped Dean's (1931-1955) homosexuality. The death of his mother left Dean to be raised by relatives in Indiana, where he enjoyed an adolescence filled with basketball, 4-H Clubs and fast...
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Paul Alexander, Author Riverhead Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57322-293-8
Tall, lean, heroic and""decidedly Lincolnesque"" is the portrait of John Kerry that emerges from this shallow campaign hagiography. Journalist Alexander (Man of the People: The Life of John McCain) gained insider access to the campaign after he...
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Paul Alexander. Knopf, $32 (368p) ISBN 978-0-5933-1590-3
Biographer Alexander (Rough Magic) traces in this stellar and sometimes-devastating account the remarkable life of a “jazz legend” whose voice “had nothing to do with reality but everything to do with the truth,” as poet Owen Dodson once put it....
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