Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels--From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe

by Anthony Arthur

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Profiles eight rivalries between famous writers that offer insight into the means they resorted to in order to defame and compromise each other, such as the tensions between Gore Vidal and Truman Capote and Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.

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If you like books about writers and also like a good old-fashioned feud then you'll like this one. The book is well-researched and presented. Could use a few ladies.
Read here if you like any of the following writers:
Mark Twain*
Bret Harte*
Ernest Hemingway*
Gertrude Stein*
Sinclair Lewis
Theodore Dreiser*
Edmund Wilson
Vladimir Nabokov
C. P. Snow
F R. Leavis
Lillian Hellman
Mary McCarthy
Truman Capote*
Gore Vidal
Thomas Wolfe
Norman Mailer
John Irving*
Sherwood Anderson
*Authors I've read
These little essays are quick reads before you drop off to sleep. Lots of fun facts and a really interesting look at the ways that authors interacted with each other.
Neat little volume. Organized into eight chapters/feuds. Each one is a standalone. Its a combination of literary history, criticism, and biography, very worthwhile if you have an interest in any of the authors involved.
Gore Vidal, among other authors, didn't like Truman Capote, although they had much in common.

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Anthony Arthur (1937-2009) was a professor emeritus of literature at California State University, Northridge, and the author of five books, including Clashes of Will: Great Confrontations That Have Shaped Modern America.

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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810.9Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican literature in EnglishHistory and criticism of American literature
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PS138 .A76Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureBiography, memoirs, letters, etc.
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