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A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick
- Title
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick / Cathy Curtis.
- Author
- Curtis, Cathy (Writer on art)
- Publication
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-481 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 388 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The first biography of the extraordinary essayist and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semiautobiographical novel Sleepless Nights. Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick boarded a Greyhound bus for New York City in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included stretches of dire poverty; lasting friendships with literary luminaries (among them, Mary McCarthy); dustups with authors she eviscerated in the New York Review of Books (of which she was a cofounder); and marriage to the poet Robert Lowell-whom she adored, standing by faithfully through his episodes of bipolar illness. Lowell's decision to publish excerpts from her private letters in The Dolphin greatly distressed Hardwick and ignited a major literary controversy. Hardwick imbued her essays with a novelistic flair and a wholly original outlook. In A Splendid Intelligence, biographer Cathy Curtis offers an intimate portrait of an exceptional woman who emerged from a long, turbulent marriage with the clarity and wisdom that illuminate her brilliant work"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Lexington (1916-1939) -- Discovering New York (1939-1947) -- Love and Torment (1948-1950) -- European Immersion (1950-1952) -- Boston (1953-1958) -- Upheaval (1958-1960) -- New York (1961-1970) -- The Rift (1970-1973) -- Literary Splash (1974-1979) -- Literary Lion (1980-2006).
- Call Number
- JFE 22-481
- ISBN
- 9781324005520
- 1324005521
- LCCN
- 2021030638
- OCLC
- 1263251651
- Author
- Curtis, Cathy (Writer on art), author.
- Title
- A splendid intelligence : the life of Elizabeth Hardwick / Cathy Curtis.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781324005537
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-481