Scharnhorst, Gary

"This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. This is a celebrity cookbook to which many literary celebrities, living and dead, have contributed, among them Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rudolfo Anaya, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner and Benjamin Franklin"--Provided by publisher.

"Confronted at every turn by an insatiable audience of sometimes hostile interviewers, the young poet tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. Seeing America and Americans for the first time, Wilde's perception often proved as sharp as his wit; the echoes of both resound in much of his later writings. His interviewers also succeeded in getting him to talk about many other topics, from his opinions of British and American writers (he thought Poe was America's greatest poet) to his views of Mormonism. This volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America."--BOOK JACKET.

Integrates literary criticism and biography in a comprehensive look at Harte's life and career.