Edmund Wilson

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Edmund Wilson is written by Richard Hauer Costa and published by Syracuse University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0815601638 (ISBN 10) and 9780815601630 (ISBN 13).

For the eminent American literary critic Edmund Wilson, Upstate New York was home. Richard Hauer Costa's biography of Wilson's final years, from 1962 to 1972, in Talcottville, NY, combines the literary, the political, and the domestic in an engaging portrait of Wilson as "squierarchical, Dickensian, benevolent." Costa shows us a very personal, accessible man as he tells us about Wilson's opinions, literary and otherwise, his likes and dislikes, his almost spiritual link to Talcottville, his failing health in his final years, his habits (moviegoing) and idiosyncracies (sneakers). What emerges is a profile of Wilson not at all like the stern figure of academic biography. Also included are interviews Costa conducted after Wilson's death with noted Upstate novelist Walter D. Edmonds, Canadian writer Morley Callaghan, and Wilson's Upstate friend, Mary Pcolar.