The Selected Letters of Bernard DeVoto and Katharine Sterne
A busy man with a busy life, DeVoto found time to write and answer letters in abundance. In he received a fan letter from Katharine Sterne, a young woman hospitalized with tuberculosis; his reply touched off an extraordinary eleven-year correspondence.
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Sterne had graduated with honors from Wellesley College in and had served as an assistant art critic at the New York Times before her illness. Despite her enforced invalidism she maintained an active intellectual life. Sterne and DeVoto wrote to each other until her death in , sometimes in many pages and as often as twice a week, exchanging opinions about life, literature, art, current events, family news, gossip, and their innermost feelings. This volume contains of their letters. Mark DeVoto, a son of Bernard and Avis DeVoto, is professor emeritus of music at Tufts University and a staff writer for the Boston Musical Intelligencer, with numerous publications in analysis of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music to his credit.
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DeVoto's biographer, Wallace Stegner, states that in these letters DeVoto "expressed himself more intimately than in any other writings. They have been selected by DeVoto's son Mark, who has also provided detailed notes clarifying ambiguities and obscure references. Readers will enjoy these letters for their wit and literary flair, but they will also gain insight into the cultural and historical crosscurrents of the s and '40s while taking an intimate and engaging look at a friendship forged entirely through words.
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Reviews "These letters give a wonderful portrait of their time--from the immediate pre-World War II years through the early part of that conflict. They also give the reader an intimate look at a very special literary friendship, one which allowed DeVoto and Sterne a unique freedom of expression. This is a significant contribution to American intellectual history.
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