Gollin, James (M.) 1932–

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GOLLIN, James (M.) 1932–

PERSONAL: Born February 16, 1932, in St. Louis, MO; son of Joshua (a business executive) and Cecelia (Millstone) Gollin; married Jane Feder (an art critic), June 6, 1957; children: Timothy, Douglas. Education: Yale University, B.A., 1953, M.A., 1956.

ADDRESSES: HomeNew York, NY. Agent—Thomas C. Wallace, T. C. Wallace Ltd., 425 Madison Ave., Ste. 1001, New York, NY 10017. E-mail—jgollin@attglobal.net.

CAREER: Writer.

WRITINGS:

FICTION

The Philomel Foundation, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1980.

Eliza's Galiardo, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1983.

The Verona Passamezzo, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1985.

Broken Consort, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1989.

OTHER

Pay Now, Die Later (nonfiction), Random House (New York, NY), 1966.

Worldly Goods (nonfiction), Random House (New York, NY), 1971.

The Star-spangled Retirement Dream (nonfiction), Scribner (New York, NY), 1981.

(With Robert W. Allardyce) Desired Track, American Vision Publishing, 1994.

Pied Piper: The Many Lives of Noah Greenberg, Pendragon Press (Hillsdale, NY), 2001.

Contributor to periodicals, including American Scholar and Fortune. Editor, Early Music America, 1995–96.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Fireworks Music, "another novel in the Antiqua Players sequence"; research on the life story of a world-famous concert musician.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Consumers Digest, September-October, 1981, review of The Star-spangled Retirement Dream, p. 25.

Library Journal, February 1, 1980, Henri C. Veit, review of The Philomel Foundation, p. 425; July, 1981, Harry Frumerman, review of The Star-spangled Retirement Dream, p. 1402.

New Yorker, July 28, 1980, review of The Philomel Foundation, p. 104; February 10, 1986, review of The Verona Passamezzo, p. 116.

New York Times Book Review, April 27, 1980, Newgate Callendar, review of The Philomel Foundation, p. 18; December 24, 1989, Marilyn Stasio, review of Broken Consort, p. 23.

Notes, June, 2002, Tom Moore, review of Pied Piper: The Many Lives of Noah Greenberg, p. 831.

Publishers Weekly, May 29, 1981, Genevieve Stuttaford, review of The Star-spangled Retirement Dream, p. 37; January 28, 1983, Barbara A. Bannon, review of Eliza's Galiardo, p. 72; October 20, 1989, Sybil Steinberg, review of Broken Consort, p. 42.

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