Nobody Grew But the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis

by Joseph Tabbi

Finalist, 2016 Society for Midland Authors Award for Biography & Memoir

During his lifetime, William Gaddis (1922-1998) evaded biographical questions, never read from his work publicly, and didn't allow his photograph to appear on his books. Before his novel J R (1975) won Gaddis the National Book Award and some measure of renown, he had given up the bohemian world of 1950s Greenwich Village for a series of corporate jobs that both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810131420
• ISBN13: 9780810131422
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"