The Wages of Expectation: A Biography of Edward Dahlberg

The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty

books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh, his autobiographical masterpiece.

Dahlberg's literary career spanned five decades and brought him into contact (and conflict) with many of the luminaries of his time, from D.H. Lawrence and Ford Madox Ford to Charles Olson and Allen Ginsberg.

Charles DeFanti was a close friend of Edward Dahlberg for the last four years of Dahlberg's life, conducted hundreds of interviews for this book (which was originally published in 1978), and has written an Afterword for this edition.