My Dear Mother: Stormy Boastful, and Tender Letters By Distinguished Sons--From Dostoevsky to Elvis

by Karen Elizabeth Gordan and Holly Johnson

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This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and musicians, from boyhood to manhood--including Elvis Presley, Ezra Pound, E. B. White, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee WIlliams, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • ISBN10 156512121X
  • ISBN13 9781565121218
  • Publish Date 10 January 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 13 December 2008
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Algonquin Books
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 232
  • Language English