Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship

by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo

Book Overview

A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer.

Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571313699
• ISBN13: 9781571313690
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.6"