Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation, in Honor of Robert N. HudspethEdited by Robert D. Habich
CONTENTS
Foreword - Joel Myerson
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Robert D. Habich
Part I: Recasting Literary Lives
"The Best Parts of Histories": The Letters in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation - Mark L. Sargent
The Inner Life of Fruitlands - Larry A. Carlson
Frank Webb's The Garies and Their Friends Contextualized within African American Slave Narratives - Henry Golemba
"Patch-work Labors": Susan Fenimore Cooper's Correspondence and the Emergence of Her Independent Literary Career - Rochelle Johnson
"Paris Wasn't Like That": Kay Boyle and the Last of the Lost Generation - Sandra Spanier
Conversation in Germany: The Redirection of Thomas Wolfe's Late Fiction - James D. Boyer
Part II: Reflections on the Craft of Biography
"Conversation that Makes the Soul": Writing the Biography of Mary Moody Emerson - Phyllis Cole
Chesnutt's Forgotten Story - Charles Hackenberry
The Resurrection of the Author: Why Biography Still Matters - Gary Scharnhorst
The Perils of Writing Biography - Robert D. Richardson
Appendix
Notes on Contributors
Index
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