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- catalog abstract ""As a graduate student, Michael Mewshaw overheard his girlfriend propositioned by James Dickey, served as chauffeur and drinking companion to William Styron, and under George Garrett's direction impersonated a Playboy fiction editor on television. So began a remarkable literary life in which Mewshaw not only published more than a dozen books but also met and befriended author celebrities at home and abroad. In his unblinking but fair-minded memoir, Mewshaw grants us the sizable pleasure of passing time with some of the twentieth century's finest and most interesting writers." "Mewshaw describes poignant episodes and painful lessons, including his complex relationship with Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark. But his memoir is also filled with humorous events: mistaking Carlos Fuentes for James Jones's handyman, being tricked into babysitting Anthony Burgess's precocious son, and receiving publishing advice from safari-garbed pulp novelist Harold Robbins. Mewshaw recounts visits with Paul Bowles in Tangier and brief collisions with the likes of Mary McCarthy, William Gaddis, and Italo Calvino. He traces his enduring friendships with Graham Greene, Pat Conroy, and Gore Vidal, limning these authors as few have seen them."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12736449.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""As a graduate student, Michael Mewshaw overheard his girlfriend propositioned by James Dickey, served as chauffeur and drinking companion to William Styron, and under George Garrett's direction impersonated a Playboy fiction editor on television. So began a remarkable literary life in which Mewshaw not only published more than a dozen books but also met and befriended author celebrities at home and abroad. In his unblinking but fair-minded memoir, Mewshaw grants us the sizable pleasure of passing time with some of the twentieth century's finest and most interesting writers." "Mewshaw describes poignant episodes and painful lessons, including his complex relationship with Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark. But his memoir is also filled with humorous events: mistaking Carlos Fuentes for James Jones's handyman, being tricked into babysitting Anthony Burgess's precocious son, and receiving publishing advice from safari-garbed pulp novelist Harold Robbins. Mewshaw recounts visits with Paul Bowles in Tangier and brief collisions with the likes of Mary McCarthy, William Gaddis, and Italo Calvino. He traces his enduring friendships with Graham Greene, Pat Conroy, and Gore Vidal, limning these authors as few have seen them."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Prologue -- George Garrett -- William Styron -- James Jones -- Harold Robbins -- Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark -- Anthony Burgess -- Paul Bowles -- Marrakech -- Graham Greene -- Gore Vidal.".
- catalog extent "226 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "080712852X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Foreign countries".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.54 B 21".
- catalog subject "Americans Foreign countries Biography.".
- catalog subject "College teachers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "English teachers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Mewshaw, Michael, 1943- Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Mewshaw, Michael, 1943-".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3563.E87 Z463 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- George Garrett -- William Styron -- James Jones -- Harold Robbins -- Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark -- Anthony Burgess -- Paul Bowles -- Marrakech -- Graham Greene -- Gore Vidal.".
- catalog title "Do I owe you something? : a memoir of the literary life / Michael Mewshaw.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".