Charles Norman. First edition, stated first printing. Dust Jacket: Partial. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1960. No writing or markings in the book, 491 pp. Front cover photograph of young Pound by Alvin Langdon Coburn with 10 pages of additional photos.
Ezra Pound influenced many writers including Ernest Hemingway who is referenced twenty-two times in this edition.
Charles Norman was a poet and the author of insightful biographies of E. E. Cummings, Ezra Pound and other literary figures. His biographies were especially valuable because of his own poetic sensibility and use of first-hand sources. He was best known for literary biographies such as ''The Magic-Maker: E. E. Cummings'' (1958) and ''Ezra Pound'' (1960) and his several books of poetry.
