Edmund Wilson - A Biography

This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife (he was married four times, among them, Mary McCarthy); had affairs with numerous beautiful women, including Edna St. Vincent Millay; and was friend to literary giants such as John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabakov, and W.H. Auden.

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By Jeffrey Meyers

Summary

This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Meyers
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2003
• EAN: 9780815411116
• ISBN: 978-0-8154-1111-6
• No. of pages: 594
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 848 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies