Henry Miller. the Happiest Man Alive. a Biography

Dearborn, Mary. V.

Biographies & Memoirs

Simon&Schuster

When Pocahontas, America's first "ethnic" heroine, laid her head over John Smith's to save him from her father, she also unknowingly lay down certain themes that would permeate America's female ethnic literary tradition and culture from that moment on. Using the figure of Pocahontas as a representative symbol or story in the American cultural imagination, this is the first study to examine American women's fiction--from Our Nig by Mrs. H.E.W. Wilson, the first novel by a black woman, to the writings of Anzia Yezierska, Gertrude Stein, and Toni Morrison--in terms of gender and ethnicity, terms that Dearborn finds essential to our understanding of American culture. Pocahontas left no "authentic" written record of herself, a fact that Dearborn uses to launch her wide-ranging discussion of the problems of authenticity, authority, and genre that plague the ethnic female literary tradition. She then goes on to consider the various elements of the Pocahontas story, such as generational conflict, renunciation of one's ethnic origins, and intermarriage, that resurface in American women's fiction as dominant ethnic themes in American culture. Finally, Dearborn suggests that American women writers, in taking ethnicity as an integral part of the American identity, can perhaps best portray what it has meant to be a woman and an outsider in American culture.

Pocahontas's Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

Examines the story of Pocahontas in order to identify social aspects of gender and ethnicity in the United States

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years; the first to draw upon a wide array of never-before-used material; the first written by a woman, from the widely acclaimed biographer of Norman Mailer, Peggy Guggenheim, Henry Miller, and Louise Bryant. A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Mary Dearborn's new biography gives the richest and most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at the end, and whose seven novels and six-short story collections informed--and are still informing--fiction writing generations after his death.

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

Arts & Literature

KNOPF

A groundbreaking, comprehensive chronicle of the fascinating and stormy life of social activist Louise Bryant, best known as the wife of radical journalist John Reed, captures the idealism and courage of a nonconforming pioneer of journalism and her tumultuous time.

Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant

Houghton, Mifflin Company

A biography of the acclaimed writer and social commentator traces the evolution of the controversial and provocative man who wrote such ground-breaking works as The Armies of the Night, The Prisoner of Sex, and The Executioner's Song.

Mailer: A Biography

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Carson McCullers: A Life

A biography of the legendary art collector and culture maven offers insight into the childhood, self-education in the ways of art and artists, and sexual appetites of Peggy Guggenheim, in a portrait of a woman who transformed the art world of the twentieth century.

Mistress Of Modernism: The Life Of Peggy Guggenheim

Undeniably one of the most controversial figures of the past half-century, Mailer has also been one of the most influential. He has both made the news and commented on it with an originality that has permanently altered America's literary landscape. Mary Dearborn had unprecedented access to Mailer's friends, relations, and antagonists, who provided key insights to fill in the familiar outlines of the Mailer myth, the brilliant successes and notorious failures. As splendidly told by Dearborn, Mailer's story is, for good or ill, the story of our times.

Humor & Entertainment

Mariner Books

A comprehensive, objective biography of Henry Miller draws on his vast correspondence as well as interviews with his associates to paint a fresh portrait of this important writer

The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller

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Henry Miller. the Happiest Man Alive. a Biography

Pocahontas's Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture

Pocahontas's Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant

Mailer: A Biography

Carson McCullers: A Life

Mistress Of Modernism: The Life Of Peggy Guggenheim

Mailer: A Biography

The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller