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Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953) remains one of the greatest historians of the Civil War. His monumental biographies, including Lee’s Lieutenants and the Pulitzer Prize-winning R. E. Lee, combined intellectual fervor with meticulous research and a graceful prose style. He received a second, posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume study of George Washington, still the definitive work on the first president. Freeman’s literary accomplishments are all the more remarkable considering that he was also editor of the Richmond News Leader from 1915 to 1949 and made twice-daily radio news broadcasts. Hardcover.
One day Joe Gilmore came to Lyle Saxon and told him that he needed a job. Joe got a job, and Lyle gained a friend for life. Joe Gilmore became the most trusted and reliable person in Lyle Saxon’s life—Joe did everything, including mix drinks, drive the car, give massages, oversee construction, and anything else that was asked of him. Through it all he never stopped smiling. This book will introduce you to the people Joe knew, and the places he and Mr. Saxon went together, including Lyle Saxon’s small eighteenth-century cabin on Melrose Plantation.
With the help of personal letters, his contemporary journals, never-before-published photos, and numerous quotes from Toole’s personal correspondence, author Joel L. Fletcher recalls his friendship with Toole—known as Ken—during the early 1960s.
John Kennedy Toole’s first published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, which Walker Percy called a “gargantuan tumultuous human tragi-comedy,” became a publishing phenomenon, with almost two million copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages. The book’s outrageous protagonist, Ignatius Reilly, is an icon of contemporary American fiction.
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Here is the first full biography of the legendary writer known as Mr. Louisiana and Mr. New Orleans. Lyle Saxon’s life was colorful, busy, and full of contrasts. He presented himself as the perfect Southern gentleman, but he grew up fatherless in modest circumstances. As host of a French Quarter salon, Saxon dispensed drinks, anecdotes, loans, and advice to many friends, including William Faulkner, Oliver La Farge, and Sherwood Anderson, yet he was often lonely and retreated to his solitary cabin at Melrose Plantation. Hardcover.
The story truly does begin in Acton, England, at the Farnell toy factory where the hand-made mohair bear was born. This biography traces the steps of the actual stuffed bear from his creation to his final resting place in the Children’s Center of the New York Public Library. Winnie-the-Pooh was brought to life as a loveable playmate flowing from the vivid imagination of Christopher Robin and introduced to the world by his father, A. A. Milne.
As is too often the case with poets, the life of Scotland’s Robert Burns was filled with tragedy and hardship. Yet, this did not detract from his poetry; rather, it fed his talent for it. Even his death mirrored the adversity of his life. On July 26, 1796, on the same day that his wife gave birth to their ninth child, Robert Burns, the bard of Scotland, was buried, thirty-seven years old and in debt.
In this enchanting memoir of life in New Orleans from the Civil War to the Great Depression, Grace King records the crises and changes in Crescent City society, as well as her own development as a writer. Here is a portrait of a woman who went through war and its aftermath and later assumed the role of independent woman and breadwinner. As a female pursuing an intellectual career, she broke with the Old South tradition, but as is well chronicled, her major projects, literary and personal, had to do with defending the South. Paperback.
Natalie Vivian Scott was once described by author Sherwood Anderson as “the best newspaperwoman in America.” She became a vital force in the creative salon of intellectuals who gathered in the French Quarter during the 1920s. This was a time that saw the reawakening of this original section of New Orleans life, thanks to the efforts of Scott and her colleagues.
Get lost in the 1920s of New Orleans with caricatures of creative individuals who lived in the French Quarter. In this updated edition of the classic by the original publisher, William Faulkner and William Spratling’s collaboration comes to life with additional commentary by Thomas Bonner Jr. and Judith H. Bonner.
Few today would not recognize the opening lines of one of the most famous poems in the English language: “’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house . . .” Written as a gift from a faithful father to his loving family, Clement Clarke Moore’s famous poem has delighted millions of people everywhere for over a century. Hardcover.