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Overview"Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (4 December 1911-3 March 1983), was a novelist, historian, poet, and biographer. Born in Cornwall, the son of an English naval architect, and with a French mother. He worked as a shipbuilder and then for a time with the Inland Revenue. In 1941 he became an armament officer and chief camouflage officer for British Army Intelligence at Singapore. In the summer of 1946, Payne travelled to China and visited with and interviewed Mao Zedong in Yenan. During the interview Mao correctly predicted that it would only take the Communist forces a year and a half to conquer China once the armistice with Chiang Kai-shek and his followers was broken. Payne had over 110 books published, novels, histories and biographies. He was best known for the biographies, which included studies of Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, Dostoyevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Chiang Kai-shek, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Sun Yat-sen, André Malraux, Shakespeare, Alexander the Great, The White Rajahs of Sarawak and George C Marshall. As a novelist, Payne used the pseudonyms Richard Cargoe, John Anthony Devon, Howard Horne, Valentin Tikhonov, and Robert Young. For his biographies, he wrote under the name Robert Payne. In 1954, he published a pastiche novella, The Deluge, as Leonardo da Vinci; the book was mostly Payne's writing, incorporating ""fragmentary da Vinci notes""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert PaynePublisher: Brick Tower Press Imprint: Brick Tower Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.762kg ISBN: 9781883283988ISBN 10: 1883283981 Pages: 510 Publication Date: 04 September 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"""...entertaining, and ... highly illuminating ... his research has been thorough and he offers some intriguing speculations regarding the influence on certain plays of ... national events ... He also offers some excellent shafts of criticism, particularly with respect to the final plays."" -- Publishers' Weekly ""... (Payne) has the gift, as does John Keegan, of using prose to elevate facts, figures, dates and events into the realms of the dramatic.""-- Amazon Reviewer ""While comparatively little is known about William Shakespeare himself, one of the worlds authentic geniuses, there is a great deal known about the age in which he lived. Robert Payne has blended the little and the lot into a most appealing and memorable work. The parts dealing with the theatre of Shakespeares time are especially vivid, as are some of the anecdotes which have survived the passage of centuries. Payne is to be congratulated."" -- Robert Cromie, Author / Critic" ...entertaining, and ... highly illuminating ... his research has been thorough and he offers some intriguing speculations regarding the influence on certain plays of ... national events ... He also offers some excellent shafts of criticism, particularly with respect to the final plays. -- Publishers' Weekly ... (Payne) has the gift, as does John Keegan, of using prose to elevate facts, figures, dates and events into the realms of the dramatic. -- Amazon Reviewer While comparatively little is known about William Shakespeare himself, one of the worlds authentic geniuses, there is a great deal known about the age in which he lived. Robert Payne has blended the little and the lot into a most appealing and memorable work. The parts dealing with the theatre of Shakespeares time are especially vivid, as are some of the anecdotes which have survived the passage of centuries. Payne is to be congratulated. -- Robert Cromie, Author / Critic Author InformationROBERT CHARLES PAYNE is a motivational author, newspaper columnist for the Ouachita Citizen, and television and radio host. He served as the head football coach and athletic director at West Monroe High School and has experience teaching and working in the insurance industry. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |