Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie
How Wallace appears in its pages: American critic, translator, and professor whose expertise in French literature gives the exchange its intellectual center.
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Wallace Fowlie
American critic and translator of modern French literature whose three-decade correspondence with Henry Miller joined scholarship to friendship.
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- 1908–1998
- 1908
- 1998
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About Wallace Fowlie
Wallace Fowlie built a long academic career around modern French literature and became especially known for writing on and translating Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Cocteau. He joined Duke University in 1964 and later held the James B. Duke Professorship of French.
Fowlie’s letters with Henry Miller begin in 1943 and continue through 1972. Their published correspondence records the shifting relation between writer and critic across war, controversy and literary recognition.
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Wallace Fowlie and Henry Miller maintained a correspondence from 1943 to 1972, later published in an edited collection.
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Corresponded with · 1943–1972
Henry Miller
Wallace Fowlie and Henry Miller maintained a correspondence from 1943 to 1972, later published in an edited collection.
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1Wallace Fowlie Papers and biographical note
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2Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie, 1943–1972 — edition description
WebsiteThird Mind BooksUsed forWeb source consulted for documented facts and historical context presented on the Wallace Fowlie page.
3The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller
BiographySimon & Schuster, 1991Used forBiographical evidence used to verify chronology, relationships, and historical context connected to Wallace Fowlie.
4Henry Miller: A Life
BiographyW. W. Norton, 1991Used forBiographical evidence used to verify chronology, relationships, and historical context connected to Wallace Fowlie.
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