Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-21 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning half a century, Wilson commented on
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-02 - Publisher: Cooper Square Press
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,
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-19 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Historical recollections of life in upstate New York. “What I have written . . . shows the gradual but steady expiration of the world of New York State as I knew it in my childhood and the modifications that its life has undergone. It is true that Lowville and Boonville
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-12 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edmund Wilson's The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov.