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City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara

10 best books like City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara (Brad Gooch): James Baldwin, E. M. Forster: A Life, Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975, The Adventures of Hergé, Byron: Life and Legend, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster, Poems Retrieved, Robert Frost: A Life, The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets

James Baldwin
AuthorDavid A. Leeming
ISBN0517168936

James Baldwin has become a man I deeply admire. I admire his writing and I also admire his philosophy.

Here Leeming helps us follow young to old Jimmy 'keeping the faith' always, through being a preacher, a student, a writer, an activist, a commentator on life, he was a witness and a keeper...
E. M. Forster: A Life
AuthorP.N. Furbank
ISBN0156286513
I’ve owned this two-in-one volume for years and finally opened it after Jasmine's wonderful essay-review of Maurice had me thinking of Forster’s probable loneliness. Reading this made me feel better about that aspect of his life: yes, there was much (mostly physical) loneliness in his life,...
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0156002507
Friends support each other. Support is a major element of the friendship between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, evident here in these warm letters. McCarthy supported Arendt in her controversial writings about Adolf Eichmann. Arendt supported McCarthy during love affairs and breakups and held...
The Adventures of Hergé
AuthorJosé-Louis Bocquet
ISBN1770460594
A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF TINTIN'S CREATOR by Jose-Louis Bocquet and Jean-Luc Fromental, Illustrated by Stanislas Barthélémy

The Adventures of Hergé is a biographical comic about the world-renowned comics artist Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Hergé. Meticulously...
Byron: Life and Legend
AuthorFiona MacCarthy
ISBN0571179975
An excellent biography of Byron - and I've read a few by now. To be honest, during Byron's early years I was feeling as if I'd read it all (or most of it) before. But during the later years, especially once he reaches Venice, the book really came into its own. I felt there was more depth, detail and interest...
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
AuthorVirginia Spencer Carr
ISBN0820325228
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
AuthorWendy Moffat
ISBN0374166781
A REVELATORY LOOK AT THE INTIMATE LIFE OF THE GREAT AUTHOR—AND HOW IT SHAPED HIS MOST BE LOVED WORKS

With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual— though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation....
Poems Retrieved
AuthorFrank O'Hara
ISBN0872865975
Originally published under Donald Allen’s classic Grey Fox Press imprint, Poems Retrieved is a substantial part of Frank O’Hara’s oeuvre, containing over 200 pages of previously unpublished poetry discovered after the publication of his posthumous Collected Poems in 1971. Featuring a...
Robert Frost: A Life
AuthorJay Parini
ISBN0805063412
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce...
The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets
AuthorDavid Lehman
ISBN0385495331
A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, reinvented literature and turned New York into the art capital of the world.

Greenwich Village, New York, circa 1951. Every night, at a rundown tavern...
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
AuthorDeirdre Bair
ISBN0671741802
This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional...
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
AuthorDonald Spoto
ISBN0306808056
This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and The Night of the...
Eudora Welty
AuthorSuzanne Marrs
ISBN0151009147
I heard mediocre things about this when it came out so I didn't bother, but I found it on a sale table so picked it up and found out for myself that it is mediocre.

It's useful for facts facts facts, and so it will become yet another one of those bios I flip through the index to find out what I want to find...
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorAlfred Habegger
ISBN0812966015
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography,...
Rimbaud: A Biography
AuthorGraham Robb
Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than the list of his...
Allen Ginsberg: A Biography
AuthorBarry Miles
ISBN0753504863
Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant, enduring position in American literature. Following his death in '97, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet & on Ginsberg's journals & correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of the 20th century's most...
The Young Hemingway
AuthorMichael S. Reynolds
ISBN0393317765
Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway's persona: his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway...
Genet
AuthorEdmund White
ISBN0679754792
Bastard, thief, prostitute, jailbird, Jean Genet was one of French literature's sacred monsters. in works from 'Our Lady of the Flowers' to 'The Screens', he created a scandalous personal mythology while savaging the conventions of his society. His career was a series of calculated shocks marked...
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
AuthorGregory White Smith
ISBN0913391190
I've always liked Jackson Pollock's paintings but never really knew that much about him personally. Well, OK, I knew he was an angry drunk & a nice guy when sober. I knew he had major fame after a Life Magazine article about him. I knew most of his work. I even knew he died in a car accident. But this book...
Che Guevara
AuthorAndrew Sinclair
ISBN0750918470
'I was born in Argentina. I fought in Cuba, and I began to be a revolutionary in Guatemala.' Che Guevara was the most admired and beloved revolutionary of his time, the first man since Simon Bolivar seriously to plan to unite the countries of Latin America. This concise biography unravels Che's life,...
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
AuthorRobert Polito
ISBN0679733523
Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche,...
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