Poet, Artist (5-Jul-1889 — 11-Oct-1963)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Frederick Brown. An Impersonation of Angels: A Biography of Jean Cocteau. London: Longman. 1969. 438pp.

Margaret Crosland. Jean Cocteau: A Biography. New York: Knopf. 1956. 238pp.

Jean-Jacques Kihm. Cocteau. Paris, France: Gallimard. 1960. 321pp. Language: French.

Jean-Jacques Kihm; Elizabeth Sprigge; Henri C. Behar. Jean Cocteau: L'homme et les Miroirs. Paris, France: Editions la Table Ronde. 1968. 476pp. Language: French.

Elizabeth Sprigge; Jean-Jacques Kihm. Jean Cocteau: The Man Behind the Mirror. London: Victor Gollancz. 1968. 286pp.

Francis Steegmuller. Cocteau: A Biography. Boston: Little Brown. 1970. 583pp.

James S. Williams. Jean Cocteau. Manchester University Press. 2006. 223pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

6. Wikipedia [link]

7. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.280)

8. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.152)

9. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.145)

10. Penguin Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century (p.471)

11. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.326)

12. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.54)

13. Cassell Companion to Cinema (p.119)

14. Twentieth Century Authors (p.293)

15. Chambers Film and TV Handbook (p.64)

16. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.120)

17. Who's Who in Lesbian & Gay Writing (p.41)

18. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (pp.168-69)

19. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.213)

20. The Hollywood.com Guide to Film Directors (pp.161-62)

21. The St. James Encyclopedia of Film Directors (pp.104-06)

22. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.117)

23. Atlantic: Brief Lives: A Biographical Companion to the Arts (pp.167-70)

24. Thames & Hudson Encyclopedia of 20th Century Music (p.51)

25. Obituaries from the Times 1961-1970 (p.155)

26. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama (p.139)

27. Legends in Their Own Time (p.51)

28. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.28)

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