Hay Fever (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Coward, Noel. Present Indicative, Doubleday, 1937.

  This first volume of Coward’s autobiography covers his youth and early career up to 1931.

• Hoare, Philip. Noel Coward: A Biography, University of Chicago Press, 1998.

  This well-researched biography of Coward offers a good balance of insight into his private life and discussion of his literary works.

• Payne, Graham, with Barry Day. My Life with Noel Coward, Applause Theater Books, 1997.

  This memoir by Coward’s longtime companion provides both a detailed personal portrait of the playwright and excerpts from his previously unpublished writings.

• Payne, Graham, and Sheidan Morley, editors. The Noel Coward Diaries, Little, Brown, 1982.

  Although clearly written with publication in mind, these diaries give the reader further examples of Coward’s sophisticated wit and unconventional opinions.