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		Elaine Dundy (born Elaine Brimberg in 1927 in New York City, New York) is an American, actress, journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright.
		Dundy was born into a prosperous Jewish family, brought up in a Park Avenue home and educated by a governess.
		In 1958 Dundy published her first novel at a time when drugs, alcohol, and extra-marital affairs meant her marriage was falling apart.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Elaine-Dundy (1207 words)

	Elaine Paige biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Elaine Paige is a world-renowned British actress and singer, primarily in musicals.
		She was born Elaine Bickerstaff on March 5, 1948 in Barnet, Hertfordshire.
		Her first professional appearance was in the UK tour of the Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse musical The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd.
	elaine-paige.biography.ms (538 words)

	Elvis and Gladys.
		In her celebrated biography of young Elvis Aron Presley, Elaine Dundy claims that the King of Rock 'n' Roll, like his mother Gladys, "took things hard." When his father, Vernon, was convicted and sent to prison for forging a check in Tupelo, Mississippi, three-year-old Elvis was distraught.
		Dundy notes that Presley's love and care for his mother became his guideposts.
		Elaine Dundy is the author of novels, biographies, and popular histories, including The Dud Avocado; Finch, Bloody Finch; Ferriday, Louisiana; and the memoir Life Itself!
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/south/register/read_5.htm (403 words)

	Elaine Race Riot biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Elaine Race Riot was a deadly 1919 race riot in the town of Elaine in Phillips County, Arkansas which gained national attention and spurred a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
		In recent years, researchers have begun to investigate the riot in Elaine as well as the similar Tulsa Race Riot which occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921.
		In early 2000 a conference on the Elaine Riot was held in Helena, Arkansas at the Delta Cultural Center.
	elaine-race-riot.biography.ms (517 words)

	Interview: ElaineDundy Part 2
		Elaine Dundy is famous as the author of one of the most seminal releases in the world of Elvis literature: "Elvis and Gladys: The Genesis of The King".
		Elaine, you were also one of the first to draw attention to recurring themes in Elvis' films that mirrored aspects of his real life, for example the overreaching manager, missing parent, twin motif and Elvis' Indian ancestry.
		EIN: Elaine we'd love to quote Gore Vidal who wrote about you "Her life among the lions is not only witty and wise as she brings into focus one husband Kenneth Tynan, one Orson Welles, the one & only Elvis Presley, and not least of all the lioness herself surviving all".
	www.elvisinfonet.com /dundy2.html (1376 words)

	Shrevenport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Amazingly, Elaine did not really know about Elvis until he died in 1977 but she eventually became hooked on Elvis and wanted to trace his roots.
		Elaine is recovering from a fall and we hope she is on the road to full fitness.
		We wish her every success with the re-issue of her book "Elvis and Gladys" to enthrall a new generation of Elvis fans since the book was first published in 1985, the same year coincidentally as our "Elvis, A King Forever".
	www.elvisly-yours.com /elvisgladys.shtml (260 words)

	Elvis Presley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In her book, Elvis and Gladys author Elaine Dundy wrote that those close to Elvis as a boy say he was a fan of comic book superhero Captain Marvel, Jr.
		However, between 1954 and 1956 the impoverished son of welfare recipients went from being shunned and even mocked by some of the popular girls at school to dating glamorous young Hollywood starlets such as Natalie Wood and Connie Stevens.
		Author Elaine Dundy wrote that actress Shelley Winters (usually considered a reliable source for Hollywood goings-on and who portrayed Gladys Presley in the 1979 made-for-TV movie Elvis) claimed the relationship between Presley and Natalie Wood developed into something more serious than what was generally reported in the media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elvis_Presley (6972 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Reviews Books: Elvis and Gladys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		"[Elaine Dundy], brightest and best [biographer] of them all...quick, intutive and open-hearted, has gone straight to the point." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		Elaine Dundy was born and educated in America.
		Here Elaine Dundy brings to Elvis and Gladys the expansive imagination of the novelist and at the same time the, steadfastness and objectivity of the biographer.
	amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/031206344X/reviews (1071 words)

	Elvis Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In 1981, while helping Elaine Dundy research her definitive biography Elvis & Gladys, I rang Miss Lillian on the phone to request an interview.
		The preacher was loud, then soft, then loud again, jumping from one end of the front of the room to the other, people stood and shouted, some spoke in the "unknown" tongue we had heard about, the young people ran around the room, shouting and jumping until they were exhausted.
		Elaine turned to me and said, "I feel like I have been to an Elvis concert." And in a sense she had.
	www.royaturner.com /elvis.html (1817 words)

	Humanist: Elvis' DNA: the gene as a cultural icon - Elvis Presley - Cover Story
		In the 1985 biography Elvis and Gladys, for example, Elaine Dundy attributed Presley's success to the genetic characteristics of his mother's multiethnic family.
		Dundy traced Elvis' musical talents to his father (who "had a very good voice") as well as his mother (who had "the instincts of a performer").
		A genealogy research organization, Goldman said, had traced Presley's lineage back nine generations to a nineteenth-century "coward, deserter, and bigamist." In Goldman's narrative, this genetic heritage explained Elvis' downfall: his addiction to drugs and alcohol, his emotional disorders, and his premature death were all in his genes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1374/is_n3_v55/ai_16898791 (1248 words)

	Kenneth Tynan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Three years later, on January 25, 1951, he married the author Elaine Dundy (official site) after a three-month whirlwind romance.
		They had a daughter the following year, who was named Tracy after Spencer Tracy, and asked Katharine Hepburn to be godmother, which she accepted.
		His marriage was increasingly strained in spite of his success (and Elaine's: she successfully published her first novel in 1958).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenneth_Tynan (1306 words)

	Elvis and Gladys (Southern Icons Series) (Elaine Dundy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It was not the only scar: as Dundy makes clear, poverty of the type the Presleys endured left so many.
		Dundy's account, so caring as it is, allows one to understand Elvis's inner world of unspoken torment.
		Incredibly well researched, it is a warm historical account of what a mother's love can do for a shy insecure boy.
	www.ka-tet-corp.com /portal/webstore/us/product/1578066344.htm (811 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Life Itself!: An Autobiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Once the heart stops bleeding, what redeems passages of flapper frippery are when the screwball wit kicks in, or she pauses to allow her writing the space it cries out for, and justifies when allowed.
		Elaine Dundy has two main claims to fame - as the author of The Dud Avocado, one of the best coming of age novels ever, and as the wife of the notorious enfant terrible critic Ken Tynan.
		Her descriptions of life in the fifties are fascinating, an eye opener into a decade that is often called grey or boring, though admittedly someone who couldn't Hemmingway and Tennessee Williams amongst her friends wasn't exactly leading your normal humdrum existence.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1860495133 (555 words)

	New Line Cinema \| Press Releases \| 2002
		ELAINE DUNDY'S THE DUD AVOCADO ACQUIRED BY CHICKFLICKS
		Dundy was born in New York in the 1920s but relocated to Paris and then London, where she married the British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan.
		In addition to The Dud Avocado, Dundy has written acclaimed biographies of such figures as her friend, Peter Finch, Finch, Bloody Finch, as well as Elvis Presley and his mother, Elvis and Gladys.
	www.newline.com /press/2002/0221_dudavocado.shtml (459 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Dundy, Elaine - 1958 - The Dud Avocado Books Review
		The first few pages of Elaine Dundy's classic novel The Dud Avocado are pitched so high and so fast that you can't help but wonder how she intends to keep up the dizzying comic tempo she has set.
		Dundy's heroine, Sally Jay Gorce, is a slangy, brassy, extremely excitable young girl out to have a good time in bohemian 1950's Paris (she defines the term devil-may-care).
		Dundy's uses lots of italics for emphasis in her dialogue, which perfectly evokes Sally Jay's charming, life-embracing sarcasm and speed.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10005824 (1110 words)

	Observer \| You name them, she knew them
		Now Dundy has employed that type of snappy dialogue to put into words a life that, had he known the half of it, would have had Groucho swooning away like Margaret Dumont.
		She had to fight the publishers Gollancz for the title and for her own name - they had wanted it to be by Elaine Tynan - and to have the word 'come' used for orgasm.
		It was a bestseller which caused some friction in the marriage, but her relationship with Tynan was already fraught, not least because of his sadomasochism.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4201350-102280,00.html (1428 words)

	Life Itself
		After working in war-time Washington Dundy, became an actress and moved to Paris where the chances of furthering her career looked good and where she could escape from the family situation.
		During her marriage Elaine Dundy was to become friends with some of the most distinguished names in theatre, film and literature and Life Itself!
		Finally, Dundy describes her experience of writing Elvis and Gladys and the people in Tupelo who helped make it the groundbreaking biography.
	www.elainedundy.com /lifeitself.html (1297 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| LRB essay \| Critical condition: Kenneth Tynan's diaries
		As Elaine Dundy reveals in her memoir, the Observer reviews didn't ripple from his fingertips like pearly notes, despite appearances.
		During one of their apache dances, he laces into Dundy so hard she's left unconscious on the bathroom floor with a pair of fl eyes and a broken nose.
		Certainly, Tynan's description of Jimmy's marriage mirrors what we know of Tynan's to Dundy: "two attractive young animals engaged in competitive martyrdom, each with its teeth sunk deep in the other's neck, and each reluctant to break the clinch for fear of bleeding to death".
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,614505,00.html (2957 words)

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		According to Elaine Dundy, who conducted the research on Elvis's maternal ancestry, he ran off with another woman and relocated in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1880, under the name of Colonel Lee Mansell.
		The sort of physical excess represented by her dancing is frequently connected to Gladys's much remarked nervousness and to its legacy in the signature moves of Elvis.
		Elaine Dundy, Elvis and Gladys (NY: Macmillan, 1985).
	www.isc.senshu-u.ac.jp /~thb0559/No2/lester.htm (7437 words)

	The Corner on National Review Online
		In a 1966 interview with Elaine Dundy from Vogue magazine Mr.
		"Elaine: When you write, have you anyone in particular in mind you are writing for?
		Derbyshire---In reference to your Corner post on the death of Alicia Markova, I too had a similar shock a few weeks ago.
	www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/04_12_04_corner-archive.asp (294 words)

	Suite101.com
		In Elvis and Gladys by Elaine Dundy (Page 42), Quote: "Gladys kept her head high.
		Elaine Dundy called Gladys a "party girl." And if the Smith's were so poor, my question is where did Gladys get money to go to the store to buy goodies "60" times a day?
		She may of took in laundry and ironing and bartered with mercents, but these are words, and a generalization of the times.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/elvis_presley/86125/950289 (2958 words)

	Articles - Nick Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In her 1985 book "Elvis and Gladys" Elaine Dundy wrote that when Presley arrived in Hollywood to make his first film in 1956 he was encouraged by studio executives to be seen with some of the "hip" new young actors there.
		However, Colonel Tom Parker became concerned Elvis' new Hollywood acquaintances might influence his rising superstar and even tell Presley what they were paying for manager/agent's fees (which was usually a fraction of what Parker was getting).
		Dundy called Colonel Parker a master manipulator who used Nick Adams and others in the entourage (including Parker's own brother-in-law Bitsy Mott) to counter possible subversion against him and keep a check on Elvis' movements.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Nick_Adams (1176 words)

	THE KING
		Although there was little hope of escaping poverty, it was a life of community with some gayety.
		Enter now Doll Mansell, Gladys Presley's mother and Elvis's grandmother, of whom Elaine Dundy had this to say.
		Elaine Dundy: "Genetically speaking, what produced Elvis is quite a mixture.
	www.wolflodge.org /visibiliti/metis/theking.htm (2049 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - ISBN 1860495583 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		But it was the opening of a new world of writers for Elaine Dundy, including friendships with Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, and Gore Vidal.
		She went on to write biographies, including the story of her friend Peter Finch, and then surprised everyone with a groundbreaking biography of Elvis Presley and his mother.
		Book Description: A New Yorker born in the 1930s, Elaine Dundy is the author of "The Dud Avocado".
	textbook-isbns.abebooks.co.uk /ISBN/456816/1860495583.html (882 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Dud Avocado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Dundy's prose isn't remarkable, but her youthful expression, her ways of seeing the artistic world surrounding her, the blissful madness of a young twenty-year-old alone in Paris all make this a tresure.
		However, in the beginning of my copy it states that Elaine Dundy was working on her autobiography 'Life Itself' to be published in 1998 - I have not been able to find it - can anyone help?
		Elaine Dundy's book will have you laughing out loud at protagonist Sally Jay Gorce's Parisian misadventures.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1853815810 (641 words)

	Independent, The (London): Books: Paperbacks
		As the title implies, this is scarcely the most ruminative of biographies, but Dundy's dazzling cast compensates for lack of Kierkegaardian reflection.
		Appropriately, since she inherited a fortune from an unusual sort of screw, Dundy indulged her husband Ken Tynan in his proclivity for odd sexual practices.
		One session ended, she recalls, "with my grabbing his cane and breaking it." You don't get that in Kierkegaard.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200206/ai_n12628098 (1126 words)

	Q-online - Celebrity: Tennessee Williams met Ernest Hemmingway in Cuba once - enter Marilyn Munroe and Auden
		Elaine Dundy recalls two opposites who yet had something in common
		by Elaine Dundy, published by Virago Press (June 21, 2001).
		For more Elaine Dundy memories read Our men in Havana and At Auden's birthday party.
	www.q.co.za /2001/2001/10/16-TWilliamsHemmingwayMar.html (418 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Ferriday, Louisiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Puzzling out this celebrity phenomenon in her often-rambling book, biographer and novelist Dundy (Elvis and Gladys) traces the region's colorful history, examining its rich mix of culture and religion and its anything-goes atmosphere.
		Novelist and biographer Dundy effectively evokes the texture of life there in her portrait of this atypically culturally diverse Southern community.
		For this reason, her book may appeal to general readers with an interest in her...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1556111444/medfools01-20 (322 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Tender Is the Fulbright -- Jul. 28, 1958 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		But her portrait of the Left Bank expatriates, who raise a decorous kind of hell and live in fear of losing their Fulbrights, is caustically funny.
		The plot, spooned out sparingly at the end like onion soup after a champagne-sodden night, concerns a vice ring, but there is not enough of it to spoil a delightful jag.
		Brown-eyed, lissome Elaine Dundy, "thirtyish," is the daughter of a retired Manhattan businessman, and spent some time as an American girl in Paris.
	time-proxy.yaga.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,810476,00.html (733 words)

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