Description: This engaging and edifying book helps rectify that disparity.
Brief description: Lisa Tyler is a professor of English at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Hemingway Review. She is the author of Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway and the editor of the anthologies Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism.
Review Quotes: "If you don't know Marsha Norman and her work, Lisa Tyler's well-researched and readable Understanding Marsha Norman is the perfect introduction. If you do know Norman and her work, Tyler offers production histories, critical depth, insight, and provocative opportunities for further research. It's an essential work for literary and drama scholars, theatre practitioners, and students. Tyler is clear-eyed, too, noting Norman's failures as well as successes. What's clear from her presentation is that Norman is an American writer to be reckoned with. By acknowledging and chronicling the important role Jon Jory's Actor's Theatre of Louisville played in establishing Norman's work and career, the book also highlights the powerful, productive, and necessary relationship between an American playwright and the American theatre and, consequently, the book makes a strong case for the continued support of theatre and playwrights in America." --Ann C. Hall, University of Louisville