The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes

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LITERATURE/BIOGRAPHY
T.S. Eliot's wife often went to his lectures wearing a sign that said "I am the wife he abandoned." One night at a Hollywood party, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald collected all the women's purses—and boiled them. Emily Dickinson hid from her father in the basement to avoid going to church. Henry James preserved all his life a jacket he had worn as a boy while meeting Thackeray, because the great author had praised the buttons. These stories, taken from memoirs, biographies, letters, and table-talk, form an irreverent and revealing history of American literature.
"I read around in The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes with great pleasure, marveling equally at the richness of the material and the industry and deftness of the editor. An instant treasure-house, I think, for all of us who care about writers, or gossip, or both."
John Updike
"Donald Hall's splendid anthology of anecdotes shows American literature with its shoes off and its hair down. I... Tovább

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LITERATURE/BIOGRAPHY
T.S. Eliot's wife often went to his lectures wearing a sign that said "I am the wife he abandoned." One night at a Hollywood party, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald collected all the women's purses—and boiled them. Emily Dickinson hid from her father in the basement to avoid going to church. Henry James preserved all his life a jacket he had worn as a boy while meeting Thackeray, because the great author had praised the buttons. These stories, taken from memoirs, biographies, letters, and table-talk, form an irreverent and revealing history of American literature.
"I read around in The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes with great pleasure, marveling equally at the richness of the material and the industry and deftness of the editor. An instant treasure-house, I think, for all of us who care about writers, or gossip, or both."
John Updike
"Donald Hall's splendid anthology of anecdotes shows American literature with its shoes off and its hair down. I found it gratifying, even addictive." Justin Kaplan
"Like its British cousin, it is a delightful book—even more delightful because American idiosyncrasy is more original, and when it is sad, more poignant." Archibald MacLeish
Donald Hall is a widely published poet whose work has appeared in publications from The New Yorker to The Times Literary Supplement. He lectures widely and is the author of fifty-five books, including Remembering Poets. Vissza