A NEW CAPRA PRESS RELEASE
JOHN SANFORD - "AN AUTHENTIC HERO OF AMERICAN LETTERS"

 

John Sanford, author of the soon-to-be-released A Palace of Silver(Capra, Dec., 2002) is now in his 99th year. Every morning he is still writing at his old Royal typewriter, just as he has daily for the past seven decades.

This new volume, his 24th, has all of the elegance and beauty that is expected of his books. It is both an elegant memoir of his wife, the Hollywood screenwriter Maggie Roberts, and a lively piece of poetic imagination. It is, quite simply, John Sanford at the peak of his career and in his own inimitable style.

A Palace of Silver is a story of love that survives all, even the McCarthy-era blacklist when John and Maggie refused her Hollywood studio's request to give the House Un-American Activities Committee "just a few unimportant names." Her response: "there are no unimportant names." This refusal was to cost them dearly.

The afterword to Sanford's volume, by Joseph McBride, is a delightful historical account of Maggie Roberts career in Hollywood (she wrote the screenplay for True Gritand dozens of other films) and includes a complete filmography of her work.

TO PURCHASE JOHN SANFORD'S A PALACE OF SILVER:

  • Trade Edition (hardcover): $25.95
  • Limited Edition (100 numbered and signed by both John Sanford and Norman Corwin): $65.00
  • Collector's Limited Edition (26 lettered and signed by both John Sanford and Norman Corwin) in a slipcase: $85.00

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Critical praise for John Sanford

LOS ANGELES TIMES: "John Sanford is an authentic hero of American letters. His more than 20 books…are among its treasures. More remarkable yet, the Santa Barbara-based writer, who is now in his 99th year, still is adding to a body of work whose formal bravura and lyric prose are nearly without parallel in contemporary literature."

NEW YORK TIMES: "John Sanford is to the novel what Thomas Benton or Grant Wood is to painting - a nativist who takes a purely esthetic delight in the salt and savor of the American character."

THE NATION (Paul Mariana): "Here is writing that is rare in our country, limited indeed to the acknowledged masters."

TIM RUTTEN (Los Angeles Times): "There is a sturdy, old-fashioned virtue at the heart of Sanford's project: It is sincerity - a sincerity so serious and complete that it stands as a kind of reproach to the current vogue for confessional memoirs."
John Sanford, now in his 99th year, has written one of his finest works to date. A poignant tribute to his wife of fifty years, the Hollywood screenwriter Maggie Roberts, the book is praised by the Los Angeles Times as a work of "formal bravura and lyric prose…nearly without parallel in contemporary literature." John Sanford, the author of A Palace of Silver, has been called "an authentic hero of American letters."