Sunflower Circle Productions LLC. A Documentary

Thomas Pauly, Professor

http://www.english.udel.edu/Profiles/pauly.htm

Thomas H. Pauly (B.A. Harvard, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) teaches courses in twentieth-century American Literature and is currently Associate Chair of the English Department. He is the author of An American Odyssey: Elia Kazan and American Culture. His edition of Maurine Watkins, Chicago and the Chicago Tribune articles that inspired her comedy treats the background to the current musical-film starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere. An abbreviated version of the introduction was published in the New York Times. He has published over thirty articles and one on a Harvard coach who saved football from being abolished back in 1906 was recently optioned a fourth time for a Hollywood film. He is currently writing a biography of Zane Grey. He was a awarded a Fulbright to teach in Italy and served for ten years as Director of the American Studies Program.

Publications
Books:
Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women (University of Illinois Press, 2005)
This ground-breaking biography is the first to appear in thirty-five years and is based upon a large trove of unknown, unpublished letters and journals. Reviewed in New York Times 1/1/06; selected for its Editors’ Choice 1/8/06. Year’s best biography from English journal Classic Angling

Thomas Stevens, Around the World on a Bicycle (Stackpole Books, 2001)
Stevens was the first person to ride a bicycle across the United States and around the world (from 1884-87). This is the first reprint of his original account and my long introduction reconstructs the special circumstances that made this trip possible.

Maurine Watkins, Chicago and her Chicago Tribune Articles (University of S. Illinois Press, 1998)
This edition deals with the background to the Bob Fosse musical “Chicago.” An abbreviated version of my introduction was published in the New York Times when the revival opened (see below). The movie version starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere was awarded the Oscar for best picture at 2003 Motion Picture Academy awards.

Maxwell Anderson, Truckline Cafe (Proscenium Press, 1985)

An American Odyssey: Elia Kazan and American Culture (Temple University Press, 1983). Winner Choice Outstanding Academic Book 1983 and reason for my appearance on the nationally syndicated, two-hour special on PBS about the relationship of Elia Kazan and Arthur Miler (2003).

Articles:
“Boxing With America: Elia Kazan 1909-2003,” Newsday Currents, December 2003, A32. “The Criminal As Culture,” American Literary History 9(Winter, 1997) 776-85. “Murder Will Out, and It Did in ‘Chicago.’” New York Times December 22, 1996, Sect. 7, 5. "Gatsby As Gangster," Studies in American Fiction 21 (Autumn, 1993) 225-36. Reprinted in Jay Gatsby ed. by Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 2003), 113-124. "Man for Two Seasons: Bill Reid Jr." Harvard Magazine (Nov.-Dec. 1991) 67-72. This article deals with the national movement to abolish football in 1905-06 and the critical role Reid played in saving the game. It was recently optioned a fourth time for a Hollywood feature film. "Black Images and White Culture During the Decade Before the Civil Rights Movement" American Studies 31 (Fall, 1990), 101-119. "Picture Book,” American Quarterly 41 (Sept. 1989), 558-62. "American Art and Labor: the Case of Anshutz's "The Ironworkers Noontime," American Quarterly 40 (Sept. 1988), 333-50. "Mabel Dodge Luhan," Western Humanities Review 44:3 (Autumn, 1986), 179-81. "Tennessee Williams," Theatre Journal 38:1 (March, 1986), 125. "The Way to Salvation: the Hollywood Blockbuster of the1950s," Prospects 5 (1980), 467-488. "The Cold War Western," Western Humanities Review 33 (Summer, 1979), 256-272. "Howard Hughes and His Western: the Maverick and The Outlaw," Journal of Popular Film 6 (1978), 350-374.

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