Title: Misfit : the strange life of Frederick Exley /
Authors: Yardley, Jonathan.
Publisher: Random House,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Exley, Frederick Biography.; Exley, Frederick.; Novelists, American Biography
Abstract: Frederick Exley was at once unique and prototypical. He inhabited his own bizarre universe and obeyed no rules except his own, yet he was a familiar and characteristic American literary type: an author whose reputation rests on a single book. His life, which he described, and disguised, and distorted in all three of his books, rivaled his "fiction." Everything he did involved a struggle, and the most important struggle of his life was his writing; out of that strife came A Fan's Notes, which Jonathan Yardley believes is one of the best books of our time.