Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life - Couverture rigide

McAlexander, Hubert H.

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ISBN 10 : 080712706X ISBN 13 : 9780807127063

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

In Peter Taylor, an impressively researched and engagingly written biography, Hubert McAlexander weaves together the facts and fiction of Taylor's life and creates a vivid canvas of the man, the artist, and his cultural and literary milien. This book chronicles Taylor's unusually balanced existence and a stable fifty-year marriage to poet Eleanor Ross Taylor amid the emotional wreckage of perhaps the most self-destructive generation in American literary history. It explores Taylor's major contributions to three generations of American literature - he virtually established the dysfunctional family as a major subject in American fiction, he was among the first era of writers to earn a living in the academic world and became a model teacher-writer, and he persevered through various writing movements and literary fashions. This book shows Taylor emerge as a major writer under the aegis of the New Yorker, persevere over the decades, and finally win public recognition with the Pulitzer Prize at age seventy for his novel A Summons to Memphis.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hubert H. McAlexander received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is currently an English professor at the University of Georgia in Athens. His previous books are The Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bonner (LSU, 1981), Conversations with Peter Taylor (University Press of Mississippi, 1987), and Critical Essays on Peter Taylor (G.K. Hall, 1993).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080712706X
• ISBN 13: 9780807127063
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
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• Personne responsable: non disponible