Marian Janssen serves as head of the International Office of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She is the author of The Kenyon Review, 1939-1970: A Critical History.
"A very well-written biography. A truly compelling story of a woman
who both wants to live her own life and wants badly to please
others, particularly men, particularly her husbands, and most
particularly her fourth husband, Allen Tate--who betrays her in the
end. Janssen's portrait of Gardner is sympathetic, but it is not
uncritical."--Fred Hobson, author of Mencken: A Life
"This is a great biography that will give Isabella Gardner's poetry
the attention it has long deserved. Compellingly written, deeply
researched, learned, lucid, funny, and wise, this book is more than
a mesmerizing page-turner. It allows us to understand Gardner and
her milieu with new specificity and insight. This is one of the
very best biographies of a mid-twentieth-century poet yet
written."--Steven Gould Axelrod, author of Sylvia Plath: The Wound
and the Cure of Words and coeditor of The New Anthology of American
Poetry
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