The paper trail
Subtitle: a recollection of writers
By: Dorothea Straus.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Moyer Bell; Distributed in North America by Publishers Group West
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Wakefield, R.I; Emeryville, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Straus, Dorothea -- Friends and associates.; Straus, Dorothea.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Publishers' spouses -- United States -- Biography.; Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: The portrait sketches of writers on these pages are various, joined only by the books they have left behind along a paper trail into the future. Which will last longer, asks the author, Dorothea Straus: the name of Edmund Wilson, Colette, Isaac Bashevis Singer, or Mary McCarthy?

Although their work is the posterity of the artist, Dorothea Straus is more concerned, here, with her encounters with the men and women themselves. Each one has been quickened by the vagaries of personal recall and she follows where it leads, fleeting victories over the erasures caused by the inexorable passage of time.