Conrad Richter: A Writer's LifePenn 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 |
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