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Peter Taylor : a writer's life / Hubert H. McAlexander.
Van Pelt Library PS3539.A9633 Z77 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McAlexander, Hubert Horton.
- Series:
- Southern literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994.
- Taylor, Peter.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- College teachers.
- United States.
- Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-.
- Southern States.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 338 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Hubert H. McAlexander's accomplished portrait of Peter Taylor (1917-1994) achieves a remarkable intimacy with this central figure in the history of the American short story and one of the greatest southern writers of his time. McAlexander knits together the facts of Taylor's life in a compelling, seamless account: his deep and distinguished family roots in Tennessee; his close bonds with writers from three generations, including Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, and James Alan McPherson; his establishment of the dysfunctional family as a force in American literature; and his perseverance as a writer, finally rewarded with the Pulitzer Prize at age seventy. Exhaustively researched and engagingly written, Peter Taylor presents a vivid picture of the man, the artist, and his literary milieu.
- Contents:
- 1 The Taylors 1
- 2 Nashville and St. Louis 12
- 3 Memphis 24
- 4 Vanderbilt and the Return Home 35
- 5 Kenyon 46
- 6 Limbo 60
- 7 Marriage and War 74
- 8 Starting Out in the Forties 92
- 9 Bloomington and Hillsborough 106
- 10 The Idyll 124
- 11 The Middle Years 138
- 12 London and Ohio State 150
- 13 Greensboro 160
- 14 Charlottesville 193
- 15 An Extension of Time 212
- 16 Fruition 230
- 17 Turning Points 246
- 18 Art and Life 261.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080712706X
- 0807129739
- OCLC:
- 45828188
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