Jerome Loving, Author . Univ. of California $34.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-520-23481-9
Dreiser (1871–1945), author of two of the most famous American novels in the naturalist school, Sister Carrie
and An American Tragedy
, rose from poverty to the top of the literary world, crossing paths with prostitutes and thugs (some of...
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Jerome Loving, Author . Univ. of California $34.95 (491p) ISBN 978-0-520-25257-8
In the latest volume for the centennial of Twain's death, Loving (Walt Whitman: Song of Himself
) serves up a balanced literary biography of a crowded life—“to renew our acquaintance with this familiar stranger in our literature and
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Jerome Loving, Author University of California Press $40 (582p) ISBN 978-0-520-21427-9
In this critical biography, Loving describes Walt Whitman as ""half New York journalist, half New England transcendentalist,"" and goes on to outline skillfully the complexities and contradictions of the poet's life and times. Loving begins with the
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Jerome Loving. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-10699-5
Norman Mailer always seemed to court controversy in both his writings and his personal life, and now Loving (Walt Whitman) offers an absorbing chronicle of Mailer’s infamous relationship with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. When...
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