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"Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines - a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem ..."--Provided by publisher.

• The Genesis and Development of Haiku in Japan
• Classic Haiku Tradition
• Modernist Haiku Poetics
• Ezra Pound, Imagism, and Haiku
• Richard Wright's Haiku and Modernist Poetics
• Wright's Haiku, Zen, and the African "Primal Outlook upon Life"
• Jack Kerouac's Haiku and Classic Haiku Poetics
• Kerouac's Haiku and Beat Poetics
• Kerouac's Haiku and The Dharma Bums
• Sonia Sanchez's Haiku and Blues Poetics
• James Emanuel's Jazz Haiku.

"This book traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and its history as one of the most popular East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchanges in modern and postmodern times"-- Provided by publisher.

Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Brings together the insights of recent Victorianist and Americanist scholarship in order to show how Adams, James, and Wharton engage with liberal thinking about whiteness, democracy, and citizenship. Locates these authors in disciplinary history, revealing that their critical responses to Bostonian liberalism feed into the ideas that structure the study of US literary history during the twentieth century. Offers a rich portrait of the Harvard intellectual milieu to which these authors respond, bringing fresh attention to their connections with thinkers such as and W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles William Eliot, Charles Eliot Norton, and Barrett Wendell. Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University, this book shows how each of these authors interrogated that liberalism's arguments for education, democracy and the political duties of the cultivated elite. Coit shows that the works of these authors contributed to a realist critique of a liberal New England idealism that fed into the narrative about 'the genteel tradition', which shaped the study of US literature during the twentieth century.

• I Didn't Even Know These Existed
• A Struggle That Will Never, Ever Pay Off in the End
• Maybe I Shouldn't Have Insisted on Taking This Trip
• Hey Can I Come Back Home Now
• I Didn't See That One Coming
• Weird Social Media Stuff You Do When Your Dad Dies
• This New Job Isn't That Great
• I'm Not Sure If I Should Have Pressed Send
• Is This Healing Me or Is It Propaganda
• I Am Trying to Care about This but It's Not Really Working
• Unlobstering
• It's Not Stalking, It's Just Finding Somebody's Number and Calling Them on the Phone
• Crucifixion and Happiness
• Authenticity Culture Is Dumb
• The Science of Invisibility
• Private Language
• Hope in a Phone
• It's Fine to Be Edited by Your Gallerist
• Maybe This Will Make Me Some Money
• Crushing It
• I Don't Think I'm Handling This Very Well
• The Disease of the Learned
• This Is Bad
• The Sucking One
• Yeah Getting a Job Is Probably a Good Idea
• Bjork's Kids Seem OK
• The Cry-It-Out Method
• Own Your Emotion
• Make Something Out of It
• Arte Povera
• Postscript on "I Didn't Even Know These Existed".

"Written as a series of rogue web posts, Instagram essays, rejected Yelp reviews, and SmugMug streams-of-consciousness that merge confession with art criticism, Art Is Everything is the story of an artist whose world implodes-just as she has a breakthrough"-- Provided by .publisher.

"Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. She knows whom to trust, where to eat, when to move locations, and how to take care of her dog. It's the only home she has. When she unwittingly witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended. Suddenly, everyone from the police to the dead boys' parents want to talk to Maddy about what she saw. As adults pressure her to give up her secrets and reunite with her own family before she meets a similar fate, Maddy must decide whether she wants to stay lost or be found."--Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Howl, O Heav'nly Muse
• Chapter 2: Jesus in the Theater of Socialism
• Chapter 3: Jack London's Place in American Literature
• Chapter 4: Theater of War, Theater at Home
• Chapter 5: Revolution, Evolution, and the Scene of Writing
• Chapter 6: The Jack London Show Goes on the Road
• Chapter 7: Red Atavisms and Revolution
• Chapter 8: Earthquake Apocalypse and Building the City, Boat, and House Beautiful
• Chapter 9: The Future of Socialism and the Death of the Individual
• Chapter 10: The Road Never Ends
• Notes Bibliography Index.
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In Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907, Jay Williams explores Jack London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his vast imagination. In this second installment of a three-volume biography, Williams captures the life of a great writer expressed though his many creative works, such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, as well as his first autobiographical memoir, The Road, some of his most significant contributions to the socialist cause, and notable uncompleted works. During this time, London became one of the most famous authors in America, perhaps even the author with the highest earnings, as he prepared to become an equally famous international writer. Author Under Sail documents London's life in both a biographical and writerly fashion, depicting the importance of his writing experiences as his career followed a trajectory similar to America's from 1876 to 1916. The underground forces of London's narratives were shaped by a changing capitalist society, media outlets, racial issues, increases in women's rights, and advancements in national power. Williams factors in these elements while exploring London's deeply conflicted relationship with his own authorial inner life. In London's work, the imagination is figured as a ghost or as a ghostlike presence, and the author's personas, who form a dense population among his characters, are portrayed as haunted or troubled in some way. Along with examining the functions and works of London's exhaustive imagination, Williams takes a critical look at London's ability to tell his stories to wide arrays of audiences, stitching incidents together into coherent wholes so they became part of a raconteur's repertoire. Author Under Sail provides a multidimensional examination of the life of a crucial American storyteller and essayist. .
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"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines himself as "Buck," a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. When things turn tragic at home, Buck begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America's sales force, setting off a chain of events that changes the game."--Publisher.

• Introduction
• The subordination of embodied power : sentimental representations of the black maternal body in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl
• Recuperating the body : Embodiment and reintegration into the black community in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and Toni Morrison's Beloved
• The narrative power of the lack maternal body : resisting and exceeding visual economies of discipline in Margaret Walker's Jubilee and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
• Mapping black motherhood onto the nation: Southern legacies and national realities in Lillian Smith's Strange fruit and Alice Randall's The wind done gone
• Coda : Michelle Obama in context.

" ... focuses on the struggles and triumphs of black motherhood in six works of narrative prose composed from the Civil War period through the present. Andrea Powell Wolfe examines the functioning of the black maternal body to both define and undermine ideal white womanhood; the physical scarring of the black mother and the reclamation of the black maternal body as a site of subversion and nurturance as well as erotic empowerment; and the construction of oppressive discourses surrounding black female bodies and reproduction and the development of resistance to these types of discourses. These tensions undergird a multifaceted discussion of the narrative positioning of the black maternal body within and in relationship to the national body politic, an inherently exclusionary and restrictive metaphorical entity constructed and socially contracted over time by an already politically empowered citizenry. Ultimately, close analysis of the texts under study suggests that the United States -- as a figurative body complete with imagined 'parts' that perform separate functions, from intelligence to labor, ingestion to expulsion -- has simultaneously used and cast off the black maternal body over the course of centuries." -- Publisher.

• To the hawk that circled J. Hood Park-
• I Am Not Dead, I'm Dormant
• Your journey continues-
• Search the Distance
• Gates Open-
• Once
• Itemization-Part I
• Itemization-Part II
• Nurse
• To the dreams that made me search-
• To Raise You, Daughter
• Miriam
• Self-Portrait at 36 with David
• To the period still arriving & marking the whole of me-
• To 3:47 a.m. when your youngest throws up in her bed-
• None of it for granted-
• Picture This
• Watching love-
• Miriam Dawson Hagan
• A braid of time-
• High Proof
• Same
• To the breasts when it's over-
• What We Do-Now
• As if overnight-
• Tell me all the things you'd miss-
• To the sleeping woman in Cindy's bakery on the corner of St. Nicholas & 179th St.
• Soaked Mourning
• To the woman on St. Nicholas Avenue whose thigh was a wilderness blooming-
• To the condom on 167th Street sprawled between Findlay & College Avenues
• To the woman falling to sleep beside me-
• Express to Work
• To the broken mattress on Park Avenue & 167th in the Bronx-
• To the shark fin on the bullet train from Sendai to Tokyo-
• Shelter
• To Esmerely at Claire's, who tells my daughters it won't hurt-
• Tell me all the things you'd miss
• To bouquet & bloom-
• Allow Me
• The Meditation
• Directions for that swim you know you want to take-
• To the rubber band holding my jeans together-
• Tonight, ovulation reigns-
• On hearing in middle school that a pussy smells like fish-
• Carried Away
• To both girls dipping bread in bowls of savory black beans in the Condesa-
• Advice to myself after my mammogram & yearly doctor visit-
• What Warms You Most
• When My Father Calls
• What I Will to Remember
• Tonight-
• Today You Are Kite
• My mother calls them magpies-
• Roost
• "Lady in the streets, but a freak in the bed"
• Museum of Sex
• How We Make It Through
• Each Day
• Fortunes
• I'm not dead, I'm dormant-
• Because
• The Balm
• What to Do.

"Blooming Fiascoes, by poet and performer Ellen Hagan, is a collective of verse that deconstructs identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director, helmed by one of the most electrifying--and narcissistic--Falstaffs of all time. A novel about shame and beauty and faith, and the moral power of art.
"The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak--a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes. A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair, and a passionate love letter to the world of theater, A Bright Ray of Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's gifts as a novelist as never before. Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director, helmed by one of the most electrifying--and narcissistic--Falstaff's of all time. Searing, raw, and utterly transfixing, A Bright Ray of Darkness is a novel about shame and beauty and faith, and the moral power of art"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy
• Chapter One: Not Your Nerd or "At-Risk" Chicana Student: On ChicaNerds and Stereotypes
• Chapter Two: "Those White Girls Don't Like It": Community and ChicaNerd Feminist Resistance in Jo Ann Yolanda Hernandez's White Bread Competition
• Chapter Three: "The College Girl from the Barrio": Calculus and ChicaNerdiness in What Can(t) Wait
• Chapter Four: Theater and Chicana Poetic Development in Guadalupe Garcia McCall's Under the Mesquite
• Chapter Five: Band Shirts and Rebellion: Resisting the "Buena Hija" Trope through Nerdiness in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
• Chapter Six: "Tis the Life of a Misunderstood Teenage Poet": ChicaNerd Poetics in Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
• Chapter Seven: To Be or Not to Be: Shakespeare, College, and Chicana Feminist Consciousness in Ghosts of El Grullo
• Conclusion: Reflections from a (grownup) ChicaNerd: Or, Why I Wrote This Book.
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ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernandez, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Perez, Erika Sanchez, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with "nerd, " Dr. Herrera coins the term "ChicaNerd" to argue how the young women protagonists in these novels voice astute observations of their identities as nonwhite teenagers, specifically through a lens of nerdiness-a reclamation of brown girl self-love for being a nerd. In analyzing these ChicaNerds, the volume examines the reclamation and powerful acceptance of one's nerdy Chicana self. While popular culture and mainstream media have shaped the well-known figure of the nerd as synonymous with white maleness, Chicana YA literature subverts the nerd stereotype through its negation of this identity as always white and male. These ChicaNerds unite their burgeoning sociopolitical consciousness as young nonwhite girls with their "nerdy" traits of bookishness, math and literary intelligence, poetic talents, and love of learning. Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd, " ChicaNerds learn to navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas.
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• Introduction--
• 1. The Inner Child in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy and Sara Crewe--
• 2. Fauntleroy's Ghost: New Thought in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw--
• 3. Rewriting the Rest Cure in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden--
• 4. Sunshine and Shadow: New Thought in Anne of Green Gables--
• 5. Millennial Motherhood in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland Trilogy-- Epilogue. The Cinematic Afterlife of New Thought Fiction.
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Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as 'mind cure' or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children's literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas - especially psychological concepts such as the inner child - thereby ensuring the movement's survival into the present day.
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• The inner child in Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little lord Fauntleroy and Sara Crewe
• Fauntleroy's ghost : New Thought in Henry James's The turn of the screw
• Rewriting the rest cure in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden
• Sunshine and shadow : New Thought in Anne of Green Gables
• Millenial motherhood in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland trilogy
• Epilogue: The cinematic afterlife of New Thought fiction.

"Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as "mind cure" or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth-century children's literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children's literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas -especially psychological concepts such as the inner child- thereby ensuring the movement's survival into the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

"A collection of poems by Erin Belieu"-- Provided by publisher.

Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities since it endangers his life. It looks like he may have been offered a chance to go straight, but leaving the King Lords won't be easy, and a "real" job has high demand for low return.

• Introduction / John Zheng
• Chronology
• Dana Gioia: an interview / Robert McPhillips
• Dana Gioia: Interview / Isabelle Cartwright
• Poetry: Paradigms lost: interview with Dana Gioia / Gloria Glickstein Brame
• On writing Nosferatu and the role of poet as librettist / LeQuita Vance-Watkins
• An interview with Dana Gioia / Kevin Bezner
• Dana Gioia interview / Christina Vick
• An interview with Dana Gioia / William Baer
• Dana Gioia and the role of the poet-critic: an interview / Garrick Davis
• Bringing art to all Americans: a conversation with Dana Gioia / Michael J. Bandler
• Money talks: a conversation with Dana Gioia / Johanna Keller
• "If any fire endures beyond its flame": an interview with Dana Gioia / Robert Lance Snyder
• A public Catholic: an interview with 2010 Laetare Medalist Dana Gioia / Cynthia L. Haven
• An interview with Dana Gioia / Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
• An interview with Dana Gioia / Laura Lindsley
• How a poem happens: Dana Gioia / Brian Brodeur
• Poetic collaborations: a conversation with Dana Gioia / Michelle Johnson
• A conversation with Dana Gioia / Erika Koss
• Dana Gioia, poet / Michael Passafiume
• An interview with Dana Gioia / Mia Herman
• Interview with Dana Gioia / John Cusatis
• The California imagination: Dana Gioia / Maggie Paul
• "This poem has had a strange destiny": interview with Dana Gioia about "The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz" / John Zheng
• Bibliography
• Index.

"Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) has made many contributions to contemporary American literature and culture, including but not limited to crafting a personal poetic style suited to the age; leading the revival of rhyme, meter, and narrative through New Formalism; walloping the "intellectual ghetto" of American poetry through his epochal article "Can Poetry Matter?"; helping American poetry move forward by organizing influential conferences; providing public service and initiating nationwide arts projects such as Poetry Out Loud through his leadership of the National Endowment for the Arts; and editing twenty best-selling literary anthologies widely used in American classrooms. Taken together, the twenty-two collected interviews increase our understanding of Gioia's poetry and poetics, offer aesthetic pleasure in themselves, and provide a personal encounter with a writer who has made poetry matter. The book presents the actual voice of Dana Gioia, who speaks of his personal and creative life and articulates his unique vision of American culture and poetry"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Raisin author tells meaning of her play / Lorraine Hansberry
• A playwright, a promise: Lorraine Hansberry reveals a major talent in the forthcoming A Raisin in the Sun / Faye Hammel
• Housewife's play is a hit / Sidney Fields
• We have so much to say / Ted Poston
• Ex-UW co-ed becomes "The Toast of New York" / Jack Gaver
• Talk of the town: playwright / Lillian Ross
• Interview with Lorraine Hansberry, Peter Glenville, Dore Schary, José Quintero, Lloyd Richards, and Arthur Laurents / David Susskind
• The protest, part I / Rev. William Hamilton
• Unaired interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Mike Wallace
• Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Studs Terkel
• An author's reflection: Willy Loman, Walter Lee, and He Who Must Live / Lorraine Hansberry
• Five writers and their African ancestors, part II: Lorraine Hansberry / Harold R. Isaacs
• The negro in American culture: interview with James Baldwin, Emile Capouya, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and Alfred Kazin / Nat Hentoff
• Interview with Lorraine Hansberry, Leo Genn, Reginald Gardiner, and Elizabeth Seal / Mitch Miller
• Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Patricia Marx
• Images and essences: 1961 dialogue with an uncolored egghead containing wholesome intentions and some sass / Lorraine Hansberry
• Interview with Lorraine Hansberry and Lloyd Richards / Frank Perry
• Interview with Lorraine Hansberry / Eleanor Fischer
• Miss Hansberry and Bobby K: birthweight low, jobs few, death comes early / Diane Fisher
• The black revolution and the white backlash: a town hall forum / Association of Artists for Freedom
• A Lorraine Hansberry rap / Lerone Bennett Jr. and Margaret G. Burroughs
• Key resources.

"Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry (1930-1965) became both the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway and the first to win the prestigious New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Resonating deeply with the aims of the civil rights movement, Raisin also ushered in a new era of black representation on the stage and screen, displacing the cartoonish stereotypes that were the remnants of blackface minstrelsy in favor of complex three-dimensional portrayals of black characters and black life. Hansberry's public discourse in the aftermath of Raisin's success also disrupted mainstream critical tendencies to diminish the work of black artists, helping pave the way for future work by black playwrights. Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry is the first volume to collect all of her substantive interviews in one place, including many radio and television interviews that have never before appeared in print. The twenty-one interviews collected here-ranging from just before the Broadway premier of A Raisin in the Sun to less than six months before Hansberry's death-offer an incredible window into Hansberry's aesthetic and political thought. In these conversations, Hansberry explores many of the questions most often put to black writers of the mid-twentieth century-including everything from her thinking about the relationship between art and protest, universality and particularity, and realism and naturalism, to her sense of the relationship between black intellectuals and the black masses, integration and Black Nationalism, and African American and Pan-African liberation. Taken together, these interviews reveal the insight, intensity, and eloquence that made Hansberry such a transformative figure in American letters"-- Provided by publisher.

In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before graduation, killed and maimed dozens of children, as well as teachers, administrators, and village residents, including Kehoe's wife, Nellie. A respected member of the community, Kehoe himself died when he ignited his truck, which he had loaded with crates of explosives and scrap metal. Decades later, one survivor, Beatrice Marie Turcott, recalls the spring of 1927 and how this haunting experience leads her to the conviction that one does not survive the present without reconciling hard truths about the past. In its portrayal of several Bath school children, Day of Days examines how such traumatic events scar one's life long after the dead are laid to rest and physical wounds heal, and how an anguished but resilient American village copes with the bombing, which at the time seemed incomprehensible, and yet now may be considered a harbinger of the future.
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"Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive and malicious - and her fiction, has been largely avoided by biographers. She was openly homosexual and wrote the seminal lesbian love story, Carol. In modern times, she would be venerated as a radical exponent of the LGBT community. However, her status as an LGBT icon is undermined by the fact that she was excessively cruel and exploitative of her friends and lovers. In this new biography, Richard Bradford brings his sharp, incisive style to one of the great and most controversial writers of the twentieth century. He considers Highsmith's bestsellers in the context of her troubled personal life; her alcoholism, licentious sex life, racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny and abundant self-loathing."--Amazon.