Passionate Lives: D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath...in Love

by John Tytell

D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath-these five great writers lived lives of passionate intensity, and John Tytell shows how their own love affairs influences their writing. He also describes how they became models for what we perceive artists to romantics whose intense and troubled lives carried them beyond the norm.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Born in Antwerp, Belgium, John Tytell is an American writer and academic. He has been a professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York since 1977. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano (1987), which is also his best known book along with Naked Angels, an early history of the Beats.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

This focuses on the love lives of D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath. You will learn a lot about each author and their lives. The main commom theme between them is their addictions and mental illness. Their lives went beyond the norm and maybe this is what society expected from each artist.

[Gina Platt · Rating 5 out of 5]

fab book, definitely an insight into what made some of these writers tick.