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Synopsis
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 in his own and in other people's terms.Johnson's biography will engage anyone interested in the art of biography and in a novelist's act of writing. Admirers of Richter's novels will also ?nd much of interest in his life. So, too, will those who ?nd value in the story of a man who, despite his sense of himself as an imperfect vessel for God's plan for human evolution, lived his life with as much grace, determination, and courage as he could.
Booknews
Having unrestricted access to all the writer's letters, journals, notebooks, and private papers, Johnson (English, Lafayette College) describes how Pennsylvania-born Richter (1890-1968) failed as a writer, tried again out of financial desperation, and wrote his way from penny-a-word pulp magazines into a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)