Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey

by Ashby Bland Crowder

Book Overview

In this deeply felt biography, Ashby Bland Crowder treats in near definitive fashion one of southern literature's unjustly neglected masters. In superb novels like Home from the Hill, The Ordways, and Proud Flesh as well as in the brilliant story collections The Last Husband and A Time and a Place, William Humphrey (1924--1997) created an imaginary East Texas Red River County, conjuring the speech and life rhythms of his native territory with artistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807128872
• ISBN13: 9780807128879
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"