Edmund Wilson: A Biography

By Jeffrey Meyers

Book Overview

This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife (he was married four times, among them, Mary McCarthy); had affairs with numerous beautiful women, including Edna St. Vincent Millay; and was friend to literary giants such as John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabakov, and W.H. Auden.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815411111
• ISBN13: 9780815411116
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"