Elvis and Gladys
Elvis and Gladys (ISBN 1-57806-634-4) is a biography of rock and roll singer Elvis Presley by author and film industry insider Elaine Dundy. The book recounts Presley's early life, the role his mother Gladys played in his formative years, and his beginnings in recorded music and film.
The first hardcover edition was published in the United States in 1985 by MacMillan Publishing Company of New York. ISBN 0-02-553910-8. It was reissued in paperback in 2004 by the University Press of Mississippi. Widely acclaimed, the Boston Globe called it "Nothing less than the best Elvis book yet" and Kirkus Reviews described it as "The most fine-grained Elvis bio ever."[1]
The biopic which depicted Elvis' relationship with Gladys is featured in the TV series Elvis (2005), which starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis and Camryn Manheim as Gladys.
Dundy in the book claims that Elvis's great-great grandmother Nancy Burdine Tacket was Jewish, citing one of Elvis's third cousins, Oscar Tackett.[2]
References
- Reading the South Archived 2006-08-13 at the Wayback Machine – Center for the Study of Southern Culture Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Elaine Dundy, Elvis and Gladys, p.21
External links
- Elvis and Gladys by Elaine Dundy. New York, Macmillan, 1985 at Internet Archive
- Elvis and Gladys by Elaine Dundy description at University Press of Mississippi site [May 2004]
- Elvis and Gladys by Elaine Dundy current description at University Press of Mississippi site
- Elaine Dundy website
