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Author: Davenport, Guy
Laughlin, James
Bamberger, W. C.
ISBN:978-0-393-05950-2
Publication Date:Jan 2010
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $82.95
Book Description:

An epistolary exchange that highlights two singular intellects, their disparate approaches to literature and their mutual admiration.

Book Details
Pages:286
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Collections / Letters
Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.5 x 2.18 x 0.25 cm
Book Weight:0.501 Kilograms
Author Biography
Davenport, Guy (Author)
Author, artist, literary critic and translator Guy Davenport was born on November 23, 1927 in Anderson, South Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1948 and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned a Bachelor of Literature from Merton College, Oxford University in 1950 and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1961. He taught English at several universities from 1951 until his retirement in 1990. He received numerous awards including the O. Henry Award for short stories, the 1981 Morton Douwen Zabel award for fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and translation awards from PEN and the Academy of American Poets. He died on January 4, 2005 in Lexington, Kentucky.

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