Edmund Wilson

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Publisher Place: Boston. Mass
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 554 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a minor repair on top of spine.

Publishers Description: "This pioneering life of Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) completes the trilogy on modern American writers that Jeffrey Meyers began with his biographies of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Wilson, whom Gore Vidal called "Americas best mind," had extraordinarily wide interests that ranged far beyond literature. He wrote about art, theater, music, film, and popular culture as well as political events, foreign travel, the revolutionary tradition in Europe, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Zuni and Iroquois Indians, the American Civil War, the culture and politics of Canada. He was a master of the biographical essay and the autobiographical memoir and was the greatest diarist of his time." "Wilsons life was as interesting as his books and, in its own way, as romantic and chaotic as Fitzgeralds. He lived in bohemian poverty in the 1920s and 30s, suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife, had three other wives (including Mary McCarthy), attracted an astonishing number of beautiful mistresses (including Edna St. Vincent Millay), and was a compulsive chronicler of his own sexual adventures."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

ISBN: 9780395689936