Thomas Boyd: Lost Author of the" Lost Generation"

Authors

Brian Bruce

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Description

Mentored by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis and published under the renowned Scribner editor Maxwell Perkins, Thomas Boyd attained only modest success as a novelist and biographer. He is known most widely for his World War I novel Through the Wheat, which critics, praising its realistic depiction of war and battle, compared to The Red Badge of Courage. How does a writer like Boyd, with his prominent literary friends, political ideals, professional aspirations, complicated personal life, and early death, fall so easily into obscurity? In this first full biography of Thomas Boyd, Brian Bruce explores the events of Boyd's life and rescues him from the realm of insignificance.

ISBN

978-1-931968-33-1

Publication Date

Spring 5-1-2006

Publisher

University of Akron Press

City

Akron, Ohio

Keywords

Biography, Lost Generation

Disciplines

American Literature

Recommended Citation

Bruce, Brian, "Thomas Boyd: Lost Author of the" Lost Generation"" (2006). University of Akron Press Publications. 99.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/uapress_publications/99