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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 548 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In time for the 50th anniversary of Catch-22, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book), illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of Joseph Heller. Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII (his plane was...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
550 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Daugherty traces his origins as one of the last American writers who had direct contact with this country's pioneer traditions. He follows McMurtry's career as a bestselling novelist and Pulitzer-Prize winner, and shows how life...
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