Edgar Lee Masters
A BIOGRAPHY
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:7th Sep '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Entertainingly well-written and jargon free, unsentimental but compassionate, using heretofore unavailable material, including the first use of Masters' adult diaries, this is the first book-length biography of a tragic American poet who was his own wors
A biography of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the "Spoon River Anthology". It provides an account of the poet's tempestuous relationships, impetuous business decisions, and artistic struggles.Entertainingly well-written and jargon free, unsentimental but compassionate, using heretofore unavailable material, including the first use of Masters
"Russell achieves a splendidly multidimensional view of Masters, the complex man as well as the prolific writer." Library Journal "This is the first full biography of Masters, and it is also likely to be the last, Russell has done his job so well...Crisply written, meticulously researched and documented, this is the biography of Masters for the foreseeable future." James Hurt, author of Writing Illinois: The Prairie, Lincoln, and Chicago
ISBN: 9780252073144
Dimensions: 241mm x 159mm x 28mm
Weight: 626g
496 pages