| Author: | Jeffrey Meyers | ISBN: | 9781461664512 |
| Publisher: | Cooper Square Press | Publication: | September 2, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Cooper Square Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jeffrey Meyers |
| ISBN: | 9781461664512 |
| Publisher: | Cooper Square Press |
| Publication: | September 2, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Cooper Square Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
