Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose ...
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and ...
... James Wood, 'The crisis of the bourgeoisie: The European Economic Community', in Revolutionary Communist Group ... in author's possession. 10 Pat Morris, Open Letter to All Members of the Revolutionary Communist Group, 1 February ...
... in author's possession . 9. A. S. Byatt , A Biographer's Tale ( London , 2000 ) , 23 . 10. Ted Solotaroff , First ... James Wood ( New York , 2001 ) , 243 . 7. Isaac Rosenfeld letter to his aunts , Box 5.1 , Isaac Rosenfeld Papers ...
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against ...
Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion.
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... James Wood , " Public Relations Report : Leadership Training Program , " November 11-13 , 1960 , box 136 , folder 8 ... in author's possession ; Horton , quoted in Aldon D. Morris , Origins of the Civil Rights Movement , 237 ...
And we are introduced to a bygone cast of intellectuals such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the “tall pines,” as Mary McCarthy once called them, cut down now, according to Atlas, by the “merciless pruning of mortality”) and, ...