- Gebundene Ausgabe: 407 Seiten
- Verlag: Pennsylvania St Univ (Juni 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0271020970
- ISBN-13: 978-0271020976
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,4 x 1,6 x 0,3 cm
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In the first full-length biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richter, Johnson (English, Lafayette Coll.) effectively captures the author's spirit, discipline, and achievements. Early in life, Richter suffered from acute anxiety, particularly from public speaking, a lifelong phobia. At 16, unable to afford college, he worked away from home, until a breakdown sent him back to his Pennsylvania Dutch roots. Richter thought of himself as a solitary shepherd, even after his hard-won literary success, and he constantly struggled with lack of self-esteem and financial worries. He won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for The Fields, which sold only modestly, and in 1961 he won the National Book Award for The Waters of Kronos. Richter never stopped writing, believing that what was left for him was "hard work and God," until his death in 1968. The first author given access to Richter's papers, Johnson is especially good when chronicling Richter's often stormy association with Alfred Knopf, who published most of his books, and with his wife, as they moved from state to state. This revealing account is recommended for most literary collections. Robert L. Kelly, Fort Wayne Community Schs., IN
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life is the story of an aspiring writer who failed and then, desperate for money, tried again and wrote himself out of penny-a-word pulp magazines and into a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Based upon unrestricted access to all of Richter's letters, journals, notebooks, and private papers, this biography offers an intimate account of Richter's personal struggle to achieve success on his own and in other people's terms. Born and raised in the small Pennsylvania town of Pine Grove, Conrad Richter is best known for his books The Sea of Gross, The Trees, and The Light in the Forest. David Johnson introduces us to the public self Richter carefully prepared for the world, whether stepping from his porch onto Pine Grove sidewalks, or negotiating the worlds of New York publishing and Hollywood film studios. He also offers an intimate view of an exceptionally private man, insecure and self-punishing, who seldom revealed his inner self even to those closest to him. The interior view of the man and the writer is available because of the personal journal Richter kept from 1925 to 1968, a record of all that was important to him.In it there are his accounts of his daily writing, vividly described, and his worries about his agent, his publisher, his wife, and his daughter - upon whom he projected his anxieties about himself. Here Richter records his agony as his wife slips toward death just as the stock market crash of 1929 takes all his money. Here too are Richter's elaborate superstitions and his own theories (psycho-energics, he called them) about the meaning of life and about an afterlife in the "astral," about reincarnation, and about spirit guides who interpose occasionally, sending signs if one could only decipher them. Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life will engage anyone interested in the art of biography and in the novelist's act of writing.
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6. April 2006
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I didn't know a thing about Conrad Richter when I started reading this book. I had read and enjoyed his book, "The Light in the Forest" when I was a kid, and I knew he had lived in New Mexico, my home state, but I had no idea of the interesting life he lived, of the unusual theories that haunted his work, of the hardships he experienced from the Great Depression and from his wife's ill health, of his fear and anxieties over speaking and being in public, or of the great significance of his novels.
This book filled me in.
This is a book that expertly portrays a human life, that makes that life fascinating, and that suggests that maybe all people might be just as intriguing.
Or they might not be: Conrad Richter was a unique individual with a unique story...and "A Writer's Life" tells it wonderfully. The author is evidently a fan of Richter's, but never a sycophant, and obviously knows how to do research, and how to write.
The book is also a wonderful slice of local history for anyone interested in Cedar Crest or Sandia Park in New Mexico, the Sandia Mountains, or Depression-era Albuquerque. It has many historic photos, and has a gripping narrative with Richter's life as its backbone. It kept me up nights reading it, and in the future I plan to be kept awake by Richter's own writings.
If his life was as facinating as this book portrays, I have little doubt that his own work will be as well.
This book filled me in.
This is a book that expertly portrays a human life, that makes that life fascinating, and that suggests that maybe all people might be just as intriguing.
Or they might not be: Conrad Richter was a unique individual with a unique story...and "A Writer's Life" tells it wonderfully. The author is evidently a fan of Richter's, but never a sycophant, and obviously knows how to do research, and how to write.
The book is also a wonderful slice of local history for anyone interested in Cedar Crest or Sandia Park in New Mexico, the Sandia Mountains, or Depression-era Albuquerque. It has many historic photos, and has a gripping narrative with Richter's life as its backbone. It kept me up nights reading it, and in the future I plan to be kept awake by Richter's own writings.
If his life was as facinating as this book portrays, I have little doubt that his own work will be as well.
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