Published and Perished

Published & Perished is a selection of well considered (and often shockingly honest) appraisals of the greatest names in American literature memorialised, eulogised, and sometimes criticised by their dearest friends and their closest peers. All are personal; many are poignant and in every case the reader reaches the final sentences knowing far more about the subject than before. Katherine Anne Porter writes of Flannery O'Connor, and John O'Hara discusses Scott Fitzgerald.