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January 20, 2007
ABOUT TERRY'S BOOKS
Terry recently finished writing Rhythm Man: A Life of Louis Armstrong, which will be published by Harcourt in the fall of 2009. He contributed an essay to Coudal Partners' newly published Field-Tested Books (as did OGIC) and wrote the introductions to William Bailey on Canvas and the paperback edition of Elaine Dundy's The Dud Avocado. One of his essays will be included in Robert Gottlieb's Reading Dance, out in November from Pantheon.His latest book is All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine, published by Harcourt. A Terry Teachout Reader, a collection of Terry's essays about American art and culture, was published in 2004 by Yale University Press. The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken, published in 2002, is now available in paperback. You can read excerpts from reviews of All in the Dances, A Terry Teachout Reader, and The Skeptic here.
Terry has also written a memoir, City Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy, edited A Second Mencken Chrestomathy and Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959, contributed to The Oxford Companion to Jazz, and written introductions to Paul Taylor's Private Domain: An Autobiography and Gene Lees' Waiting for Dizzy. You can buy any of these books by clicking on the titles.
Posted January 20, 2007 11:21 AM
