Wilfrid Sheed

From the Review

December 16, 1993: Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Made Man*

Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939–1966 by Martin Stannard

December 5, 1991: Armageddon Now?

Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer

October 12, 1989: Outside Baseball*

Summer of '49 by David Halberstam

The Progress of the Seasons: Forty Years of Baseball in Our Town by George V. Higgins

Necessities: Racial Barriers in American Sports by Philip M. Hoose

Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers by John B. Holway

Crash: The Life and Times of Dick Allen by Dick Allen, by Tim Whitaker

The Story of My Life by Hank Greenberg, edited and with an introduction by Ira Berkow

Out of the Blue by Orel Hershiser, with Jerry B. Jenkins

October 27, 1988: The Exile*

In Search of J.D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton

June 12, 1986: A Farewell to Hemingstein*

The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

Dateline: Toronto/The Complete Toronto Star Dispatches, 1920–1924 by Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White

Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

Along With Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years by Peter Griffin

The Young Hemingway by Michael Reynolds

Ernest Hemingway and His World by Anthony Burgess

September 23, 1982: Reds*

The Red Smith Reader edited by Dave Anderson

To Absent Friends from Red Smith by Red Smith

Late Innings: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell

1947—When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball by Red Barber

November 5, 1981: No Need for Names*

The Last Laugh by S.J. Perelman

November 9, 1978: Brass Bands and Raspberries*

In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White

Make-Believe Presidents: Illusions of Power from McKinley to Carter by Nicholas von Hoffman

June 1, 1978: The Defector's Secrets*

Final Payments by Mary Gordon

May 12, 1977: Desperate Character*

How It Was by Mary Welsh Hemingway

Papa: A Personal Memoir by Gregory H. Hemingway MD, with a preface by Norman Mailer

By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway by Scott Donaldson

April 15, 1976: Milking the Elk*

America in the Movies by Michael Wood

The Men Who Made the Movies by Richard Schickel

Life Goes to the Movies

The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr

October 31, 1974: Toward the Black Pussy Cafe*

W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Biography with commentary by Ronald J. Fields

May 2, 1974: Catholics (letter)

March 7, 1974: America's Catholics*

Catholics by Brian Moore

Aphrodite in Mid-Century: Growing Up Female and Catholic in Postwar America by Caryl Rivers

The Last Catholic in America by John R. Powers

The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's Religion by Harvey Cox

Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion by Garry Wills

The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in the Seventies by Michael Novak

Catholic America by John Cogley

Fragments of the Century by Michael Harrington

The New Agenda by Andrew M. Greeley

July 20, 1972: Everybody's Mafia*

The American Mafia: Genesis of a Legend by Joseph L. Albini

The Mafia Is Not an Equal Opportunity Employer by Nicholas Gage

Honor Thy Father: The Inside Book on the Mafia by Gay Talese

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Godfather directed by Francis Ford Coppola

March 23, 1972: I Am a Cabaret*

Cabaret directed by Bob Fosse, screenplay by Jay Allen

September 2, 1971: Chesterbelloc and the Jews*

May 22, 1969: All-American*

The Collected Short Prose of James Agee edited, with a Memoir by Robert Fitzgerald

May 9, 1968: Violence in Oakland (letter)

Books by Wilfrid Sheed

In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery (1995)
My Life As a Fan (1993)
Baseball and Lesser Sports (1991)
Essays in Disguise (1990)
The Boys of Winter: A Novel (1987)
Frank and Maisie: A Memoir with Parents (1985)
Clare Boothe Luce (1982)
The Good Word & Other Words (1979)
Transatlantic Blues (1978)
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Photographs (1975)
Three Mobs: Labor, Church, and Mafia (1974)
People Will Always Be Kind (1973)
The Morning After; Selected Essays and Reviews (1971)
The Blacking Factory, & Pennsylvania Gothic; A Short Novel and a Long Story (1968)