6/8/2023 0 Comments Jenny frame unexpectedScott Fitzgerald had been a genius, and that The Great Gatsby was an American classic. He championed new writers like Ernest Hemingway, and it was Wilson who persuaded American readers that F. He almost single-handedly resurrected the reputation of the novelist Henry James, who had been forgotten for years. Wilson introduced Americans to writers like James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Vladimir Nabokov. He wrote about Russian poetry, Haitian literature, the Hebrew language, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the literature produced during the American Civil War. He went to communist Russia and learned both Russian and German to write about the history of socialism in his book To the Finland Station (1940). He never took a teaching position and rarely gave lectures. He is generally considered one of the greatest American man of letters of the 20th century, though he published almost all of his work in popular magazines. It’s the birthday of Edmund Wilson, born in Red Bank, New Jersey (1895). “Saints” by Louis Jenkins from Just Above Water.
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