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Edmund Wilson

A Life in Literature

Edmund Wilson( )
Author: Dabney, Lewis M.
ISBN:978-1-4668-1044-0
Publication Date:Aug 2005
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Ebook
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From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Patriotic Gore), searching reportage, and criticism that has outlasted many of its subjects. Wilson documented his unruly private...
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Pages:656
Author Biography
Dabney, Lewis M. (Author)
Lewis Meriwether Dabney III was born in Dallas, Texas on February 28, 1932. He graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, did postgraduate work at Emory University in Atlanta, and received a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He taught at Smith College and Vassar College before teaching for more than three decades at the University of Wyoming.

He was the pre-eminent expert on the life and work of Edmund Wilson. In 1983, he edited The Portable Edmund Wilson, which in a later edition was entitled The Edmund Wilson Reader. In the early 1990s, he succeeded Leon Edel as the editor of Wilson's journals and produced the final volume, The Sixties. Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature was published in 2005. Dabney died of a brain tumor on December 24, 2015 at the age of 83.

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