Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis (
1939) directed by
Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline. He translated
Ève Curie's biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1939), into English.
Sheean wrote Oscar Hammerstein I: Life and Exploits of an Impresario (1955) as well as a controversial biography of
Dorothy Thompson and
Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy and Red (1963).
Partial list, including both fiction and otherwise:
New Persia (1927) - Iran
Anatomy of Virtue - (1927) - Psychological romance novel of an American girl who marries an English nobleman.
American Among the Riffi (1926)
Gog and Magog
The Tide (1933) - "If a Messiah Came to Your Town Today, What Would You Think? What Would You Do?".
Personal History: Youth and Revolution: the Story of One Person's Relationship to Living History (1935)
Sanfelice (1936) - Historical novel set in Naples
The Pieces of a Fan (1937)
A Day of Battle (1938) - Historical novel based on the French victory at Fontenoy in Flanders on May 11, 1745
Not Peace but a Sword (1939) - Europe. Personal account of events in Prague, Madrid, London, Paris and Berlin during the 12 fateful months between March 1938 and March 1939.[6]
Lead, Kindly Light: Gandhi & the Way to Peace, Random House (1949). Can Gandhi's non-violent approach lead the world away from violence as the way to settle disputes?
Between the Thunder and the Sun (1943) Account of being in England during the
Battle of Britain.
Notes
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Biography was separately recognized in 1935 and 1936, then subsumed in general Nonfiction.
^Book list from first edition of "Not Peace but a Sword"
Further reading
Cohen, Deborah. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War (2022) American coverage of 1930s in Europe by
John Gunther,
H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and
Dorothy Thompson.
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