Christopher Bigsby
Christopher Bigsby, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, is an award winning academic, novelist and biographer. Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Nottingham, he is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. 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 the 8-part situation comedy serial Patterson. He has made television programmes on John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton.
Bigsby is 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 Remembering Arthur Miller (2005), Arthur Miller & Company (1990), The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller (1997) and the 514-page Arthur Miller: A Critical Study (2005). His biography of Arthur Miller was shortlisted for the James Taite Black Memorial Prize, the Sheridan Morley Prize and the George Freedley Memorial Award. He has reviewed for a number of national newspapers (including The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph) and his programme notes have appeared in theatres throughout the UK, in Australia, Canada and the United States.
Research interests:
Aspects of English and American culture
African American literature
Popular culture
Theatre
Selected bibliography:
Books:
Twenty-First Century American Playrights (Cup), 2017
Writers In Conversation Vol 6 (Boiler House Press), 2017
Viewing America: Twenty-First Century Television Drama (Cup), 2013
Writers In Conversation Vol 5 (Unthank Books), 2013
Writers In Conversation Vol 4 (Unthank Books), 2011
Writers In Conversation Vol 3 (Unthank Books), 2011
Arthur Miller: 1962-2005, 2011
Arthur Miller: 1915-1962, 2008
The Cambridge Companion To August Wilson, 2007
Remembering And Imagining The Holocaust: The Chain Of Memory, 2006
The Cambridge Companion To Modern American Culture (Ed.), 2006.
Remembering Arthur Miller, 2005
The New Introduction To American Studies (Pearson Longman), Ed. With Howard Temperley, 2005
Arthur Miller: A Critical Study, 2004
Cambridge Companion To David Mamet, (Ed.), 2002
Writers In Conversation, Vol. 2 (Ed), 2001
Writers In Conversation Vol. 1 (Ed.), 2000
Modern American Drama 1945-2000, 2000
The Cambridge History Of American Theatre Vol Iii, 2000
Contemporary American Playwrights, 1999
The Cambridge Companion To Arthur Miller (Ed.), 1997
Nineteenth Century American Short Stories, Ed. (Dent), 1995
Miller And Company, Ed. (Methuen0), 1990
Miller On File, (Methuen), 1988
Cultural Change In The United States Since World War Ii, Ed. (Free University Press), 1986
The Radical Imagination And The Liberal Tradition, Ed. (Junction Books), 1982
Contemporary English Drama, Ed. (Edward Arnold),1981
The Second Black Renaissance (Greenwood Press), 1980
Tom Stoppard (Longman, L976), Rev. And Expanded L980, 1980
Approaches To Popular Culture, Ed. (Edward Arnold Ltd.), 1976
Superculture, Ed. (Paul Elek Ltd. And Bowling Green State University Press), 1975
Dada And Surrealism (Methuen Books), 1972
The Black American Writer, Vol. Ii: Poetry And Drama, Ed. (Everett Edwards Inc. And Penguin Books), 1971
The Black American Writer, Vol. I: Fiction, Ed. (Everett Edwards Inc. And Penguin Books), 1971
Fiction:
2016 The Hotel
2015 Flint
2014 Ballygoran
2012 Poe, Or The Revenant
2008 One Hundred Days: One Hundred Nights
2002 Beautiful Dreamer
1996 Still Lives
1995 Pearl: A Romance
1994 Hester: A Romance
