Goyen
Subtitle: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series)
Contributors: Reginald Gibbons (Editor, Introduction)
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: May 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780292714915
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Collections; Biography / Autobiography; English; Literature: Classics; USA; Essays; General; Literary Collections / Essays; 20th century; Authors, American; Biography; Interviews
Description: "This volume contains all of the uncollected autobiographical writings of William Goyen, including essays previously published in American periodicals and literary journals; interviews published in Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and the French magazine Masques; and previously unpublished materials drawn from Goyen's papers in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The writings span Goyen's entire adult life, from youthful journals to autobiographical sketches to his long draft for an autobiographical book, Six Women, which profiles women whom Goyen felt had influenced him deeply: Frieda Lawrence, Dorothy Brett, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Margo Jones, Millicent Rogers, and Katherine Anne Porter.

The volume also contains late essays on growing up in Houston, writing from life, and illness and recovery."--Jacket.