Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life

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Penn State Press, 2010 - 432 sivua

Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life is the story of an aspiring writer who failed and then, desperate for money, tried again and wrote himself out of penny-a-word pulp magazines and into a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Based upon unrestricted access to all of Richter's letters, journals, notebooks, and private papers, this biography offers an intimate account of Richter's personal struggle to achieve success in his own and in other people's terms.

Johnson's biography will engage anyone interested in the art of biography and in a novelist's act of writing. Admirers of Richter's novels will also find much of interest in his life. So, too, will those who find value in the story of a man who, despite his sense of himself as an imperfect vessel for God's plan for human evolution, lived his life with as much grace, determination, and courage as he could.

 

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Pine Grove
1
A Boys Will
17
Early Marriage
45
Pine Tree Farm
77
New Mexico
103
Early Americana
131
The Sea of Grass
153
Something for Myself
181
Nothing but Christmas
235
Putting Away Toys and Pawns
265
The Closed Door
293
A Country of Strangers
321
River to the Sea
351
Acknowledgments
367
Notes
371
Index
395

Nomads
213

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David R. Johnson is Professor of English at Lafayette College.

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