The Outsider : The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn / Steve Kemme and Bon Koizumi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kemme, Steve, author.

Koizumi, Bon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Teachers--Biography.

Teachers.

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Hearn, Lafcadio.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

Born in Greece and abandoned as a child, Lafcadio Hearn lived the life of an exile. He travelled the world and became a famous writer but always felt like an outsider--in Dublin, London, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and French-speaking Martinique. To him, none of these places felt like home. Hearn's life in America was punctuated by a string of successes and failures. In Cincinnati he became the city's best-known crime reporter but was fired after marrying a black woman. Devastated, he moved to New Orleans, where he championed French Creole and Caribbean culture and created the city's image as a place of voodoo and debauchery (the image which many Americans still hold today). Hearn arrived in Japan at a time of historic change. Sent there as a correspondent, he soon found himself alone and jobless. He settled in the remote town of Matsue, firmly believing that Japan would provide him with an endless supply of rich writing material--perhaps enough to last a lifetime. Over the next dozen years, Hearn published 15 books which were lauded by the likes of Mark Twain, William Butler Yeats, Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin. Hearn's books made him famous as the leading writer on Japan and Japanese culture. Discover the fascinating journey of Hearn's life and the series of events--from peaks to pitfalls--that shaped his remarkable story.

Contents:

Greek-Irish roots

Struggles in Cincinnati

Budding reporter

The ghastly and the grim

Race and rancor

Going down South

Creole chronicles

Mission in Martinique

Rapture in Japan

Life and labor in Kumamoto and Kobe

Ghost stories and journey's end in Tokyo.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4629-2433-6

OCLC:

1385456492