Original sentence: Fussell's 1975 literary study The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) won the National Book Award for Arts and Letters, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.His first wife, Betty Fussell, a food writer and biographer, whom he met at Pomona College, has written a memoir, My Kitchen Wars (1999), that discusses their more than 30 years of marriage in highly negative terms, including allegations that Fussell had adulterous affairs with both men and women
Edited sentence: He has cultivated an elegant, witty prose style, fired by an unapologetically confrontational and subversive sensibility.His 1983 book, Class, A Guide Through the American Status System is considered to be a modern classic on the subject.His classic literary study The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), is his most important work.His first wife, Betty Fussell, a food writer and biographer, whom he met at Pomona College, has written a memoir, My Kitchen Wars (1999), that discusses their more than 30 years of marriage in highly disobliging terms, including scandalous allegations regarding Fussell's personal life.His hallmark is a fierce intolerance of hypocrisy and cant, literary, cultural, and especially military.In 1976 it won the National Book Award for Arts and Letters, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa