This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife (he was married four times, among them, Mary McCarthy); had affairs with numerous beautiful women, including Edna St. Vincent Millay; and was friend to literary giants such as John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabakov, and W.H. Auden.
- ISBN10 0815411111
- ISBN13 9780815411116
- Publish Date 2 September 2003 (first published 3 April 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 592
- Language English