{"product_id":"the-collected-essays-of-elizabeth-hardwick-paperback","title":"The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e (Selected by), \u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of 2017 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where she lived and locations she visited, and writes about the foundations of American literature--Melville, James, Wharton--and the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers' lives--women writers, rebels, Americans abroad--and the literary afterlife of biographies, letters, and diaries. Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, the Collected Essays gathers more than fifty essays for a fifty-year retrospective of Hardwick's work from 1953 to 2003. \"For Hardwick,\" writes Pinckney, \"the poetry and novels of America hold the nation's history.\" Here is an exhilarating chronicle of that history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/b\u003e (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarryl Pinckney\u003c\/b\u003e selected \u003ci\u003eThe New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). He is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eHigh Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eBlack Deutschland\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and of two works of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eOut There: Mavericks of Black Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eBlackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). He also worked for Robert Wilson on his productions of \u003ci\u003eThe Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime Rocker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLetter to a Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGarrincha: A Street Opera\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770373964064,"sku":"9781681371542","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/24c4ca81bbdecb3aa96b5fb5a9e4e829.webp?v=1780370387","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-collected-essays-of-elizabeth-hardwick-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}