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Roy Hoopes is Director of College Relations, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland.

“A meticulously researched biography. . . . I’ve rarely read such a grim account of a writer desperately grinding out work to pay bills. . . . One hopes this careful book will lead to a revival of interest in a writer who not only keeps the palms damp and the pages turning, but whose work rings as true now as it did the day it was written.”—The New York Times