Couverture / Jaquette

This is the first biography of a gay American novelist, story writer, and playwright who in the early 1960s was considered a major talent and whose work was praised by Jonathan Franzen, Susan Sontag, Langston Hughes, and Tennessee Williams.

Note biographique

Michael Snyder is the author of John Joseph Mathews: Life of an Osage Writer, which was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in non-fiction, and Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Twentieth Century. An expert on gay literature and Native writers, Snyder is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.

Table des matières

• Introduction: The Mystery of Purdy


• Ch. 1: Hicksville, Ohio


• Ch. 2: A Day after the Fair


• Ch. 3: The Nephew


• Ch. 4: Dream Palaces


• Ch. 5: The Running Sons


• Ch. 6: The Professor


• Ch. 7: James Purdy Begins


• Ch. 8: Success Story


• Ch. 9: Threshold of Assent


• Ch. 10: The Mourner Below


• Ch. 11: Maggoty Urgings


• Ch. 12: The Sun at Noon


• Ch 13: Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys


• Ch. 14: Elijah Thrush


• Ch. 15: Solitary Confinement


• Ch. 16: Lighting Out


• Ch. 17: On Glory's Course


• Ch. 18: Color of Darkness


• Ch. 19: The Acolytes


• Acknowledgments


• Notes


• Select Bibliography


• Index

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