A documented chronology traces Fields' work in all media. The bibliographies cover 16 typescripts and more than 525 books and periodicals, with full annotations

This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies. As the first biography t

W.C. Fields was at the top among comedians during Hollywood's Golden Era of the 1930s and 1940s and has since remained a comic icon. Despite his character's mis

W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while endurin

Provides a revealing glimpse of the man and artist behind the image of the gin-guzzling misanthrope, discussing Fields' Philadelphia childhood, his career in va