Fever Vision: The Life and Works of Coleman Dowell (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564784575)

From his birth in rural Kentucky during the Great Depression to his suicide in Manhattan in 1985, Coleman Dowell played many roles. He was a songwriter and lyricist for television. He was a model. He was a Broadway playwright. He served in the U.S. Army, both abroad and at home. And most notably, he was the author of novels that Edmund White, among others, has called "masterpieces." But Dowell was deeply troubled by a depression that hung over him his entire life. Pegged as both a Southern writer and a gay writer, he loathed such categorization, preferring to be judged only by his work. Fever Vision describes one of the most tormented, talented, and inventive writers of recent American literature, and shows how his eventful life contributed to the making of his incredible art.

Author: Eugene Hayworth
ISBN-10: 1564784576
ISBN-13: 9781564784575
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.33w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 267