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American Vandal by Roy Morris
Category: Culture
For a man who liked being called "the" American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent overseas and on the popular travel books "The Innocents Abroad," "A Tramp Abroad," and "Following the Eq ...Show more
DECLARING HIS GENIUS OSCAR WILDE IN NORTH AMERICA by MORRIS ROY JR
Category: Biography
Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare but my genius." But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month ...Show more
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived - The Homecoming of a Literary Legend by Roy Morris Jr.
Category: Biography
In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Pantomiming the voice of her partner Alice, The Autobiography was actually Gertrude's work. But whoever the real author ...Show more
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