"This is a magisterial retelling of who did what with and to whom--Ezra Pound, the Fitzgeralds, the Murphys, Getrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, Robert McAlmon, Bryher, H.D., and all the other major and minor players whose personal histories gave the era the aura of golden perfection."--The New York Times Book Review In this brilliant, elegantly written biography, award-winning author James R. Mellow offers a thorough reassessment of a man who was both a literary giant and an icon for his age. The final volume in Mellow's "Lost Generation" trilogy, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences is also a homage to Paris in the 1920s and a tribute to the writers and artists who set the indelible standards for the modern age. "Without it, neither scholar nor layman can claim to have a full understanding of the forces that shaped and ultimately destroyed the talent of a man who is arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth century."--Los Angeles Times

Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences

Biographies & Memoirs

Mellow, James R.

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

Reconstructs the events in the marriage of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald and analyzes the legend of the Fitzgeralds in terms of the era and society in which they lived

Invented Lives

Ballantine Books

Views Gertrude Stein's life, close relationship with Alice B. Toklas, and the friends and acquaintances who visited at the house at 27, rue de Fleurus

Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company

Avon/Books

Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times

A full-length portrait of one of America's great writers brings to life Hawthorne's experiences and the age he lived in, detailing his courtship of Sophia Peabody and his relationships with Melville, Poe, Emerson, and others

Professionals & Academics

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

A thorough reassessment of the life of a literary giant details the writer's influential male friendships, his career as a journalist, and his years as a central figure in the expatriate community in Paris. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

Views Gertrude Stein's life, close relationship with Alice B. Toklas, and the friends and acquaintances who visited them in Paris

Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company

History

Houghton/Mifflin

Walker Evans (19031975) is best known as one of the leading documentary photographers of the Depression Era, and for his photographs of Alabama sharecroppers in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. His FSA photographs have become icons in the American consciousness, and are perhaps the most influential body of photographic work in this century.But Evans was not the propagandist for social causes he was presumed to be; he was, instead, a fastidious observer, recording, simply, the way things were. His instinctive aversion to artiness” contrasted him sharply from his senior Alfred Stieglitz, and his immediate contemporary, Ansel Adams. Evans' eye took him toward the dusty particulars, the backroads of American life, its rundown mill towns, roadside stands, torn movie posters and advertisements for departed minstrel shows. He developed a peculiarly American vernacular, his particular trademark that makes an Evans photograph almost instantly recognizable.With unrestricted access to all of Evans' diaries, letters, work logs and contact sheets, James R. Mellow has produced one of the most finely wrought portraits of a major American artist ever. Also, it is a deeply informed cultural history of the 1930s and '40s and a lively account of friendships and influences with the likes of Lincoln Kirstein and James Agee.

Walker Evans

Basic Books

The Depression Era photographs of Walker Evans (1903-1975) remain some of the most indelible and iconic images in the American consciousness. James R. Mellow's landmark biography of Evans-the first to make use of all his diaries, letters, work logs, and contact sheets-shows that Evans was not the social propagandist that many presume, but rather a fastidious observer, recording, simply, the way things were. Walker Evans is not only one of the most finely wrought portraits of a major American artist ever, it is also a fascinating cultural history of America in the 1930s and '40s.

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

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Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences

Invented Lives

Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company

Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times

Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times

Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences

Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company

Walker Evans

Walker Evans