Derleth: Hawk--and dove

By Dorothy M. Grobe Litersky

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881000930
• ISBN13: 9780881000931
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: National Writers Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A labor of love

I am told that this book - so far the only biography of August Derleth - has maddened some of the Mythos gurus almost to apoplexy. I do not have as much emotional involvement in the subject.The title has nothing to do with the political hawk/dove polarization of the Vietnam era or the Cold War. There are a lot of typos and bad syntax, and the narrative does not always flow smoothly either. And yet in the end I did read the whole book, and enjoyed it. Derleth was an interesting character, and Ms Litersky did manage to get access to a lot of material that I would never have heard of otherwise - and whatever her other faults as a writer, it is clear that she is passionate about her subject.