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The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne
Mark Devoto
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Description for The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne
Hardcover. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 794.
Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) was a historian, critic, editor, professor, political commentator, and conservationist, and above all a writer of comprehensive skill. As a contributor for more than thirty years to Harper’s and other magazines, he was known for his forceful opinions. His essays were often brash and opinionated and kept him in the public limelight. One stinging essay even led the FBI to create a file on him. His five serious novels are forgotten today, but his magazine short stories and the well-paid potboilers that he wrote under a pseudonym (John August) subsidised the first of the significant works of ... Read more
Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) was a historian, critic, editor, professor, political commentator, and conservationist, and above all a writer of comprehensive skill. As a contributor for more than thirty years to Harper’s and other magazines, he was known for his forceful opinions. His essays were often brash and opinionated and kept him in the public limelight. One stinging essay even led the FBI to create a file on him. His five serious novels are forgotten today, but his magazine short stories and the well-paid potboilers that he wrote under a pseudonym (John August) subsidised the first of the significant works of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607811886
SKU
V9781607811886
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About Mark Devoto
Mark DeVoto, a son of Bernard and Avis DeVoto, is professor emeritus of music at Tufts University, USAand a staff writer for the Boston Musical Intelligencer, with numerous publications in analysis of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music to his credit.
Reviews for The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne
“These letters give a wonderful portrait of their time—from the immediate pre–World War II years through the early part of that conflict. They also give the reader an intimate look at a very special literary friendship, one which allowed DeVoto and Sterne a unique freedom of expression. This is a significant contribution to American intellectual history.”—Carl Brandt, Brandt & Hochman ... Read more