Edmund Wilson : a biography

Author(s)

• Meyers, Jeffrey

Bibliographic Information

Edmund Wilson : a biography

Jeffrey Meyers

Cooper Square Press, 2003, c1995

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1995

Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-540) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BB27455556
• ISBN:
  • 9780815411116
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 554 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 23cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3545.I6245
  • DC22 : 818.5209
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
  • LCSH : Critics -- United States -- Biography