The literary critic, journalist, and art critic's insights into the Spanish Civil War; the rise and fall of Marxism and Nazism; World War II; Vietnam; the sexual revolution; and modern and post-modern figures such as Yeats, Woolf, Sartre, and Eliot are explored in this critical biography of a great literary figure. 15,000 first printing.
David Leeming, a former professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, is the author of The World of Myth, Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney, and James Baldwin: A Biography (Owl Books, 0-8050-3835-3). He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.