Literary feuds : a century of celebrated quarrels--from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe / Anthony Arthur.

Author/creator Arthur, Anthony
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2002.
Descriptionxiv, 240 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Partners no more : Mark Twain and Bret Harte -- The boy with the interested eyes : Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein -- The slap heard 'round the world : Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and the Nobel Prize -- Not always a "pleasant tussle": the difficult friendship of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov -- The battle of the "two cultures": C.P. Snow and F.R. Leavis -- "Now there's a play": Lillian Hellman and Mary MCarthy -- Les Enfants Terribles: Truman Capote and Gore Vidal -- Not-so-dry bones: Tom Wolfe, John Updike, and the perils of literary ambition.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-229) and index.
LCCN 2002067504
ISBN031227209X

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS138 .F36 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold