Literary feuds : a century of celebrated quarrels from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe /
Arthur, Anthony.
Literary feuds : a century of celebrated quarrels from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe / Anthony Arthur. - New York : MJF Books, 2002. - xiv, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
"This edition published by arrangement with St. Martin's Press, LLC."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-229) and index.
Partners no more: Mark Twain and Bret Harte -- The boy with the interested eyes: Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein -- The slap heard 'round the world: Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and the Nobel Prize -- Not always a "pleasant tussle": the difficult friendship of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov -- The battle of the "two cultures": C.P. Snow and F.R. Leavis -- "Now there's a play": Lillian Hellman and Mary MCarthy -- Les Enfants Terribles: Truman Capote and Gore Vidal -- Not-so-dry bones: Tom Wolfe, John Updike, and the perils of literary ambition.
1567316816 9781567316810
2004104901
Literary quarrels--History.--United States
American literature--History and criticism.
Authors, American--Biography.
Literary feuds : a century of celebrated quarrels from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe / Anthony Arthur. - New York : MJF Books, 2002. - xiv, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
"This edition published by arrangement with St. Martin's Press, LLC."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-229) and index.
Partners no more: Mark Twain and Bret Harte -- The boy with the interested eyes: Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein -- The slap heard 'round the world: Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and the Nobel Prize -- Not always a "pleasant tussle": the difficult friendship of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov -- The battle of the "two cultures": C.P. Snow and F.R. Leavis -- "Now there's a play": Lillian Hellman and Mary MCarthy -- Les Enfants Terribles: Truman Capote and Gore Vidal -- Not-so-dry bones: Tom Wolfe, John Updike, and the perils of literary ambition.
1567316816 9781567316810
2004104901
Literary quarrels--History.--United States
American literature--History and criticism.
Authors, American--Biography.