Philip Callow, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $28.5 (411p) ISBN 978-0-929587-95-0
In an interesting and well-written biography, Callow ( Vincent Van Gogh ) attempts to illuminate Walt Whitman's life (1819-1892) by focusing primarily on the poet's experiences before the Civil War. Drawing heavily on earlier works by Gay Wilson...
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Philip Callow, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $30 (452p) ISBN 978-1-56663-187-7
Callow, a novelist and author of biographies on D.H. Lawrence, Cezanne, Walt Whitman and Van Gogh, has not been as thorough as Donald Rayfield in his recent biography of the great Russian playwright and short story writer. And this is rather a...
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Philip Callow, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $27.5 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56663-343-7
Clearly, Stevenson (1850-1894) understood the biographic potential of his life when he wrote An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey. Callow is only the latest to map the author's route from Edinburgh to the South Seas. Following the recent...
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Philip Callow, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-56663-084-9
Callow (Vincent Van Gogh: A Life) portrays Cezanne (1839-1906) as a tragic figure who lived in a personal hell that belies the greatness of his art. A difficult, often boorish man who had a morbid fear of emotional and physical contact, especially...
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