SEX FACTS MAR MAGIC OF EDMUND WILSON STATEWIDE Edition

Jeffrey Meyers' "Edmund Wilson: A Biography" lets us know that not many fifths -- most particularly fifths of Johnny Walker Red -- were ever too distant from the shy, pudgy, bulldog-faced author's right hand after a hard day's labor of writing and researching among his belov...

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Published inThe Hartford courant
Main Author OWEN McNALLY Owen McNally is a features writer for The Courant
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hartford, Conn Tribune Interactive, LLC 18.06.1995
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Summary:Jeffrey Meyers' "Edmund Wilson: A Biography" lets us know that not many fifths -- most particularly fifths of Johnny Walker Red -- were ever too distant from the shy, pudgy, bulldog-faced author's right hand after a hard day's labor of writing and researching among his beloved books. Meyers recounts Wilson's life from his privileged yet loveless boyhood on through his Rabelaisian drinking habits and tumultuous sex life, his nervous breakdown, his war with the IRS and literary scrap with old friend Vladimir Nabokov. There's the batting order of mistresses, wives and latter-day lovers, including Elaine May of Nichols and May fame and writer Penelope Gilliatt, 37 years his junior. And, of course there's a closeup of his erotic, Punch and Judy marriage with the writer Mary McCarthy, 17 years his junior.
ISSN:1047-4153