Steven Gilbar and Dean Stewart. First edition (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket designed by Charles W. Scarbrough. Hardcover: Near Fine. Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 2002. No writing or markings in the book, 223 pp.
The best of the writer's life and work is recorded for posterity by their closest friends. Here is a selection of well considered (and often shockingly honest) appraisals of the greatest names in American literature memorialized, eulogized, and sometimes criticized by their dearest friends and their closest peers. For example, Toni Morrison writes about James Baldwin, Willa Cather about Stephen Crane, and Archibald MacLeisch writes about Ernest Hemingway.
