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.Dos Passos claimed that Wilson boldly traveled between New York and Red Bank on a motorcycle. But Edmund, in a more accurate version of the story, revealed his mechanical ineptitude: ahe bought a motorcycle, wrecked it the first time heanbsp;...
Title | : | Edmund Wilson |
Author | : | Jeffrey Meyers |
Publisher | : | Cooper Square Press - 2003-09-02 |
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