SUGGESTED READING
Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are for sale in the Library Shop.
About Yaddo: *A Century at Yaddo. Essays by John Cheever, et al. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: The Corporation of Yaddo, 2000.
*Waite, Marjorie Peabody. Yaddo: Yesterday and Today. Albany, N.Y.: Argus Press,1933. Reprinted by The Corporation of Yaddo, 1999.
By and about some Yaddo artists: Axelrod, Steven Gould. Robert Lowell: Life and Art. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Carr, Virginia Spencer. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Cheever, John. The Letters of John Cheever, edited by Benjamin Cheever. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Cheever, Susan. Home Before Dark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Field, Edward. The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Hamilton, Ian. Robert Lowell, a Biography. New York: Random House, 1982.
Kazin, Alfred. A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
Langer, Elinor. Josephine Herbst. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.
*Lowell, Robert. The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Nardi, Marcia, and William Carlos Williams. The Last Word: Letters Between Marcia Nardi and William Carlos Williams, edited by Elizabeth Murrie O’Neil. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994.
*O’Connor, Flannery. The Habit of Being: Letters, edited by Sally Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979.
*Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962, edited by Karen V. Kukil. New York: Anchor Books, 2000.
*Plimpton, George. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1997.
Pollack, Howard. Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1999.
*Price, Ruth. The Lives of Agnes Smedley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Thomson, Virgil, and Richard Kostelanetz. Virgil Thomson: A Reader. Selected Writings 1924–1984. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
Truitt, Anne. Turn: The Journal of an Artist. New York: Viking, 1986.
Unrue, Darlene Harbour. Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
*Werth, Barry. The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2001.