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Far from home : selected letters of William Humphrey
- Title
- Far from home : selected letters of William Humphrey / edited by Ashby Bland Crowder.
- Author
- Humphrey, William.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Crowder, A. B.
- Description
- xvi, 257 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Often compared to William Faulkner, renowned American writer William Humphrey (1924-1997) sought to shatter myths about the South in such acclaimed novels as Home from the Hill, The Ordways, and Proud Flesh, and in his voluminous short stories, critical essays, and memoirs. This collection of Humphrey's best letters deserves space on the bookshelf alongside these earlier works. Beginning in the 1940s when, as a true starving artist, he wore borrowed clothes and could afford only one meal a day, the letters move to his time as a goatherd, his stint as a teacher at Bard College, and his middle years in Europe. They continue as he returns to America and teaches at Washington and Lee, MIT, Princeton, and Smith, and decrease in number as his health declines in the late 1980s and early 1990S." "Humphrey corresponded with some of the central figures in the literary and intellectual life of the twentieth century, including writers such as Katherine Anne Porter and Leonard Woolf, and the publishers Alfred and Blanche Knopf. These letters present a vivid picture of Humphrey as he provides commentary on his contemporaries through personal observations combined with sharp critical judgments."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Southern literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Southern literary studies.
- Subject
- Humphrey, William > Correspondence
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Struggling in New York (1947-49) -- Professor of No Degree (1950-58) -- Unsettled Years, Mostly Abroad (1958-63) -- A Significant Year in Virginia (1963-64) -- Sussex and Alassio (1964-65) -- Home in the Hudson Valley (1965-73) -- After Proud Flesh (1973-79) -- Last Years (1980-93).
- ISBN
- 9780807132722 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807132721 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007001095
- 40014931541
- OCLC
- 191846525
- ocn191846525
- SCSB-5383591
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries