Skeleton Key to the Suicide of my Father, Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County - Softcover

Lockridge, Ernest H.

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9781497462090: Skeleton Key to the Suicide of my Father, Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County

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ISBN 10: 1497462096 ISBN 13: 9781497462090

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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WHY did my brilliant father, Ross Lockridge, Jr., execute himself at 33, March 6, 1948, while his first novel, RAINTREE COUNTY, was the Number-One Bestseller in America? Critics were hailing it as the sole recent contender for the ultimate American title, "The Great American Novel." Even as my father was murdering himself, he was experiencing critical and financial success beyond the greatest of great expectations. He died with full knowledge that his life, viewed from the street, had exceeded all but the most extravagant of human dreams. My book holds the SKELETON KEY that unlocks the Riddle of Raintree County. I offer this painful story less from choice than from an obligation to history and to truth, in order that the truth will not die with me. Squeamishness and mendacity, blood brothers, go hand in hand. Miss Manners plays no part this tragedy. Truth is not subject to etiquette or taste, and it is precisely because the truth about my father's brief, terrible life and his forlorn death is unspeakable that the truth demands to be told.

Biograf�a del autor:

Ernest graduated Phi Beta Kappa with High Distinction from Indiana University. A Rhodes Scholarship finalist he was Woodrow Wilson and Lewis-Farmington Fellow at Yale University where he earned "Honors" in all his graduate classes, was awarded an inaugural Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship (1962-3) and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in English within three years. He was hired by Yale's Department of English (1963-71) and taught at Yale during the Golden Age when its Department of English was internationally rated Number One. He was selected Fellow at The Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1969-70). In May 1971, Yale's seven undergraduate literary prizes were won by his students, with work written under his supervision. He has published novels, memoirs and literary criticism. His books have appeared in hardcover and paperback editions. One of his novels was optioned by Hollywood; another was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. His literary criticism appears in The Sewanee Review, Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of Narrative Technique, The Hemingway Review, and in anthologies, including The Dictionary of Literary Biography. His Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Great Gatsby (Prentice-Hall) was in print for a quarter-century. For two decades Ernest taught English at The Ohio State University where in 1976 he was promoted to Full Professor and in 1985 was awarded the University's premier award for teaching excellence, “The O.S.U. Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.” He took "early retirement" after 28 years in full academic regalia, and has devoted himself to writing, jazz sax and clarinet, painting, family, and travel. Travels with Ernest (Rowman & 225 Littlefield Publishers), co-authored with his famous wife, sociologist and poet Laurel Richardson, was published in 2004. He delivered “The O.S.U. Department of English Fifth Annual Emeriti Lecture,” April 8, 2010. Emeritus Professor of English at The Ohio State University, Ernest is a jazz musician and painter of award-winning paintings that have appeared in solo exhibits, galleries, and on the covers of books. He is father of three, stepfather of two, grandfather of eight.

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