Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader
by James Gould Cozzens
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To mark James Gould Cozzens s seventy-fifth birthday, 19 August 1978, the Southern Illinois University Press in conjunction with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich takes exceptional pride in publishing this rich sampling of the work of a master novelist.James Gould Cozzens, whose literary career has spanned 13 novels and 54 years, was born in Chicago in 1903. After graduation from Kent School in Connecticut he entered Harvard University in 1922, which he left in 1924 to devote his full time to show more writing. His excellence as a writer has been recognized by critics and the public alike. Six of his books were Book-of-the-Month Club selections. "Guard of Honor "was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and "By Love Possessed"one" "of the notable best sellers in contemporary fictionwon the Howells Medal of The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1960 (an award which is conferred every five years for that period s most distinguished work of American fiction).Cozzens s dedication to his craft has produced a body of fiction unsurpassed in its fidelity to life and its hard intelligence. Since the 1930s he has been unchallenged in his ability to portray the professional man in American society and has written the best American novels about clergymen, lawyers, and military men.Matthew J. Bruccoli, the editor of this volume, notes in his Introduction that James Gould Cozzens has sought to write only to say as precisely as he can what by standards of his own he judged worth saying, standards which seem best summed up in the dictum from Samuel Johnson from which the main title of this work is taken: Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. The complete novel and the selections from six of Cozzens s major novels included here furnish a comprehensive overview of and an introduction to the canon of a major American novelist. The book provides a permanently usable collection for new readers of James Gould Cozzens as well as an omnibus for the initiated." show lessTags
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James Gould Cozzens, known for his detailed and realistic social novels, was born August 19, 1903, in Chicago. During his sophomore year at Harvard he wrote his first novel, Confusion, the success of which prompted him to leave college to write exclusively. He published a successful novella, S.S. San Pedro, in 1931. Guard of Honor (1948), an show more account of his life on an Air Force base, won the Pulitzer Prize. His most popular work was By Love Possessed (1957), which received the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He wrote other novels including The Last Adam (1933), Men and Brethren (1936), The Just and the Unjust (1942) and Morning, Noon and Night (1968). In 1964 he published Children and Others, a short story collection. Cozens died August 9, 1978, in Florida. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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