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Clancy Sigal (September 6, 1926 – July 16, 2017) was an American writer, and the author of dozens of essays and seven books, the best-known of which is the autobiographical novel Going Away (1961).
If Fielding's Tom Jones were alive in post-war England he might have been Clancy Sigal, the American author of this restlessly curious memoir. Honest and devious, faithful and lustful, a mass of plucky contradictions, Clancy first arrived in London in 1957.
21 de jul. de 2017 · Clancy Sigal, Novelist Whose Life Was a Tale in Itself, Dies at 90. The authors Clancy Sigal and Doris Lessing in the late 1950s or early ’60s. They used their romantic relationship as source...
22 de jul. de 2017 · Clancy Sigal. (ANTHEA SIEVEKING/CAMERA PRESS LONDON) He was a street-corner communist agitator in the early 1940s, then a World War II soldier who stared down one of the chief architects of the...
16 de jul. de 2017 · Clancy Sigal was the child of a love affair between two idealists. His parents Jennie Persily and Leo Sigal were labor organizers. Jennie, a single mother, raised Clancy on her own. Chicago-born, he was an ordinary street kid until the army sent him overseas.
A PEN Lifetime Achievement award winner and National Book Award runner up, I am a Professor Emeritus at the Annenberg School of Journalism, University of Southern California. I have lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and Eton College.
This riveting, poignant and hilarious memoir recounts Clancy Sigal’s escapades as a young agent, handling screenwriters and actors at the Sam Jaffe Agency in the blacklist-addled Hollywood of the 1950s.
