Title: Critic in love : a romantic biography of Edmund Wilson /
Authors: Castronovo, David.; Groth, Janet, 1936-
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Wilson, Edmund, Relations with women.; Authors, American Biography; Critics United States Biography
Abstract: "Edmund Wilson, critic, writer, and diarist extraordinaire, was a literary celebrity of enormous appetite. In his half century as a major force in American letters he not only knew everyone, he seemed to fall in love with most of them." "Who were they? Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay; actress Mary Blair; friends, writers, and drinking buddies Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Dawn Powell, and Elinor Wylie; poet Leonie Adams; writer and intellectual Mary McCarthy; Mamaine Paget, later the wife of Arthur Koestler; and screenwriter and journalist Penelope Gilliatt to name only the best known. They appear here as complete portraits, personalities in their own right as well as in the roles they play in Wilson's romantic and sexual biography."
Contents: Artists and bohemians -- Proletarians and the bourgeoisie -- The intellectual and the cosmopolitans -- Endings and beginnings -- The sum total : living and writing.