Greenfield, an author of articles on Lionel Trilling, Ludwig Lewisohn, and Charles Horton Colley, discusses the life and writings of American poet and novelist Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989), who strove to conceal his real life and self from the world. Greenfield draws on archives and interviews with family members, classmates, editors, publishers, colleagues, and lovers to separate Prokosch's real life from ... Read morethe fictions he created, discussing his life from his childhood to death, the connection between his creative process and his penchant for lies and disguises, and his works, which he saw as extensions of his life, like , , and his fictitious memoir . He also addresses his homosexuality and his forgery of the 'Butterfly Books.'
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Dreamer's Journey offers a fascinating insight into the life and work of this unusual, creative artist…. Dreamer's Journey is a tremendous work of research, offering sympathetic insight into a gifted, complicated author who created in his work a world to match his odd temperament.
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