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.

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Literary quarrels--History.--United States
American literature--History and criticism.
Authors, American--Biography.