Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)

Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) by Johnson, David R.. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780271020976.

Conrad Richter: A Writers Life is the story of an aspiring writer who failed and then, desperate for money, tried again and wrote himself out of penny-a-word pulp magazines and into a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Based upon unrestricted access to all of Richters letters, journals, notebooks, and private papers, this biography offers an intimate account of Richters personal struggle to achieve success in his own and in other peoples terms. Johnsons biography will engage anyone interested in the art of biography and in a novelists act of writing. Admirers of Richters novels will also find much of interest in his life. So, too, will those who find value in the story of a man who, despite his sense of himself as an imperfect vessel for Gods plan for human evolution, lived his life with as much grace, determination, and courage as he could.