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Archibald MacLeish: An American Life Donaldson, Scott; Winnick, R. H.
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Hardcover. 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1992 Houghton Mifflin. Superclean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight; never read. Light shelfwear only. Huge book: 622pp, Index, Notes, Bibliography, B/W photos. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- surface or Airmail only. 'Appointed MacLeish's biographer by the MacLeish estate, Donaldson in collaboration with Winnick has produced a sympathetic and fully realized treatment of the writer's life and work. MacLeish (1892-1982) was born into wealth but rejected a law career for poetry, supporting his family by working as a journalist for Fortune magazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice for his poems (1932, 1953) and once for his play J.B. (1959). Donaldson details his subject's friendships with Hemingway, Dean Acheson and Dos Passos, acknowledging MacLeish's literary achievements and his outstanding stint as FDR's Librarian of Congress. The book credits him with acting against fascism and McCarthyism but also reveals his snobbishness, extra-marital affairs and failures as a father. Readable and well-researched, this is a solid scholarly biography of a major literary figure.'--Publishers Weekly, 1992. Keywords: poet, 20th, twentieth, century.
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