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William Fifield
William Fifield (1916–1987) was an American writer of novels, nonfiction, essays and short stories. He published several works on Jean Cocteau and recorded Jean Cocteau: A Self-Portrait, A Conversation with William Fifield in French. He also recorded a conversation in English with the mime Marcel Marceau, Marcel Marceau Speaks. Fifield was the author of a biography of Modigliani and of In Search of Genius, a collection of his conversations on the creative process with Picasso, Cocteau, and other twentieth-century artists and writers, both books published by William Morrow and Company and edited by J. D. Landis. He won an O. Henry Award short story prize in 1943. Fifield married Mercedes McCambridge in 1939, and had one son, John Lawrence, in 1941. The two divorced and John Lawrence was adopted by McCambridge's second husband, Fletcher Markle. John Lawrence Markle committed suicide after murdering his wife and two daughters in November 1987. Fifield died a month later.
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William Fifield (1916–1987) was an American writer of novels, nonfiction, essays and short stories. He published several works on Jean Cocteau and recorded Jean Cocteau: A Self-Portrait, A Conversation with William Fifield in French. He also recorded a conversation in English with the mime Marcel Marceau, Marcel Marceau Speaks. Fifield was the author of a biography of Modigliani and of In Search of Genius, a collection of his conversations on the creative process with Picasso, Cocteau, and other twentieth-century artists and writers, both books published by William Morrow and Company and edited by J. D. Landis. He won an O. Henry Award short story prize in 1943. Fifield married Mercedes McCambridge in 1939, and had one son, John Lawrence, in 1941. The two divorced and John Lawrence was adopted by McCambridge's second husband, Fletcher Markle. John Lawrence Markle committed suicide after murdering his wife and two daughters in November 1987. Fifield died a month later.
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