Edmund Wilson, the man in letters
By: edited and introduced by David Castronovo and Janet Groth.
Contributors: Castronovo, David.; Groth, Janet, 1936-
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 -- Correspondence; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence; Critics -- United States -- Correspondence
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "Among the major writers of the Hemingway and Fitzgerald generation, Edmund Wilson defied categorization. He wrote essays, stories and novels, cultural criticism, and contemporary chronicles, as well as journals and thousands of letters about the literary life and his own private world." "Here for the first time in print is Wilson's personal correspondence to his parents, lovers and wives, children, literary comrades, and friends from the different corners of his life. Various writers and thinkers - including Lionel Trilling, Cyril Connolly, and Isaiah Berlin - take their places alongside upstate New York neighbors in this gallery of letters that extends from the teens to the early 1970s. These letters complete the picture of Wilson the man, offering unguarded moments and flinty opinions that enrich our understanding of a complex and troubled personality. Four times married and many times in love; traveling through Depression America, the USSR, postwar Europe, the Middle East, and Haiti; and writing on a Balzacian scale, Wilson as a correspondent reveals the exhilaration and chaos of being himself." "Arranged by correspondent and moving through the phases of his career, Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters constitutes an exemplary autobiography cum cultural history. The writing itself is vintage Wilson - a blending of classical and conversational styles that stands as part of the modern American canon and is filled with the emotions and tastes of a master."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction / xi; title: Acknowledgments / xiii; title: A Note about the Editing / xv; title: I. THE YOUNG MAN AND THE GREAT WAR / 1; title: To Mother / Father / 3; title: II. FRIENDS OF YOUTH AND LATER YEARS / 31; title: To Burton Rascoe / 35; title: To Allen Tate / 40; title: To Louise Bogan / 43; title: To John Dos Passos / 50; title: To Morton Dauwen Zabel / 57; title: To Lionel Trilling / 66; title: To Dawn Powell / 74; title: To BettyHuling / 81; title: To Helen Muchnic / 89; title: To Cyril Connolly / 91; title: To Isaiah Berlin / 97; title: III. MARRIAGES / 109; title: To Mary McCarthy / in; title: To Elena Mumm Thornton / 133; title: IV. WILSON AND HIS CHILDREN / 193; title: Rosalind / 195; title: Reuel / 205; title: Helen / 223; title: V. CLELIA CARROLL:; title: AN EPISTOLARY ROMANCE / 231; title: VI. LITERARY BUSINESS / 271; title: To John Hall Wheelock of Charles Scribner's Sons / 274; title: To Charles Scribner of Charles Scribner's Sons / 275; title: To Ken McCormick of Doubleday Co. / 276; title: To Fredric Warburg of Secker and Warburg Co. / 277; title: To William Van O'Connor at American Quarterly / 278; title: To William Shawn at the New Yorker / 278; title: To Roger Straus at Farrar, Straus / 280; title: To Edward Gorey / 294; title: VII. A WILSON GRAB BAG / 297; title: To Elmer Rice / 300; title: To John Lester / 301; title: To Norman Gottwald / 303; title: To Jacob Landau / 304; title: To William James Jr. / 305; title: To V. S. Pritchett / 306; title: To Katharine S. White / 306; title: To John Hall Wheelock / 307; title: To John Berryman / 308; title: To Stephen Spender / 309; title: To Robert Cantwell / 310; title: To the New York Times / 311; title: To Henry D. Blumberg / 311; title: VIII. AT TALCOTTVILLE / 315; title: To Dick and Jo Costa / 318; title: To Mary Pcolar / 320; title: (with a letter to S. N. Behrman) / 324; title: To Glyn and Gladys Morris / 329; title: To Margaret Rullman / 340; title: Credits / 343; title: Select Index of Persons and Places and of Works by Edmund Wilson / 347.