Truth Comes in Blows

A Memoir

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Author:

Solotaroff, Ted

ISBN:

978-0-393-32050-3

Publication Date:

Jan 2010

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

AUD $39.95

Book Description:

Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Truth Comes in Blows is renowned editor and critic Ted Solotaroff's prize-winning account of a coming of age at once quintessentially American and especially vexed.

Book Details

Pages:	290
Detailed Subjects:	Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	1.4 x 2.11 x 0.2 cm
Book Weight:	0.373 Kilograms

Author Biography

Solotaroff, Ted (Author)

Editor and writer Ted Solotaroff was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on October 9, 1928. He served in the United States Navy before receiving a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan. He was almost done with a dissertation on Henry James at the University of Chicago when he was hired as an editor at The Times Literary Supplement in 1960. He also worked for The New York Herald Tribune, the New American Library, and Harper & Row. In 1967, he founded The New American Review. He also wrote memoirs and collections of essays including Truth Comes in Blows, First Loves, The Red Hot Vacuum, and A Few Good Voices in My Head. He died due to complications of pneumonia on August 8, 2008.

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