But Matthiessen was hung up on what he saw as the deficiencies of his own. He was convinced Betty hadn’t loved him as much as she’d loved her other two children — something she eventually admitted was ...

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway was one of the great 20th-century American novelists, and is known for works such as A ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...