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Married to Genius
Married to Genius considers the emotional and artistic commitment in the marriages of nine modern writers: Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. These writers believed that marriage provided their most profound relationships, and although their lives revea...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
April 1st 2005
by Southbank Publishing
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There are things one knows about famous people and then, because biographers never really get the facts straight, you discover more. This is what it felt like reading about the writers in this book - and it kept me hooked till the end. It's just a pity that Meyers occasionally presumes that the reader knows who you're talking about and bandies names about that were meaningless to me. Interesting read never the less.
Lots of interesting tidbits.
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Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently been given an Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Thirty of his books have been translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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