Edmund Wilson

  • Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
    By Lewis M. Dabney

    ... a farmer" and lacked time for serious work, having only “between six in the morning and quarter of nine to write." On his part Dos noted that when “the Talcottville Squire" visited "Spence's Point" he showed no interest in farming.

  • Edmund Wilson: Our Neighbor from Talcottville
    By Richard Hauer Costa

    remember introducing Thomas Mann up here during the war . It was an anti - Fascist rally . Mann described , in private conversation , A Farewell to Arms as a perfect lyric book . I've always considered Cat Barkley as just a sofa pillow ...

  • Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections
    By Lewis M. Dabney

    LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Aaron • Paul Berman • David Bradley • David Bromwich • Lewis M. Dabney • Andrew Delbanco • Morris Dickstein EDMUND WILSON CENTENNIAL REFLECTIONS Edited by Lewis M. Dabney Edmund Wilson helped shape American ...

  • Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time
    By Janet Groth

    In the course of a career that spanned five decades, Edmund Wilson's literary output was impressive. His life's work includes five volumes of poetry, two works of fiction, thirteen plays,...

  • Edmund Wilson
    By Leonard Kriegel

    Leonard Kriegel examines Wilson’s principal nonfiction works in depth: Axel’s Castle, which he finds a classic in its own right; To the Finland Station, which he holds to be Wilson’s...

  • Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections
    By Lewis M. Dabney

    These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

  • Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
    By Lewis M. Dabney

    A Life in Literature Lewis M. Dabney ... 93 “does not ... life”: Ibid., 29. ... 94 “need for romance ... sexual expression”: Judith Farr, The Life and Art of Elinor Wylie (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 6.

  • Edmund Wilson: A Biography
    By Jeffrey Meyers

    Three weeks later Wilson told the California writer Upton Sinclair about her death as matter-of-factly as he had previously told Tate about his marriage: “My wife was killed in Santa Barbara last September by falling down a flight of ...

  • Edmund Wilson
    By Warner Berthoff

    Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

  • Edmund Wilson: A Study of Literary Vocation in Our Time
    By Sherman Paul

    Edmund Wilson: A Study of Literary Vocation in Our Time

  • Edmund Wilson: A Biography
    By Jeffrey Meyers

    This pioneering life of Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) completes the trilogy on modern American writers that Jeffrey Meyers began with his biographies of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.