Death of a rebel [[electronic resource] ] : the Charlie Fenton story / / Scott Donaldson

• Autore: Donaldson Scott <1928-2020.>
• Pubblicazione: Madison, : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9; B
• Soggetto topico: Biographers - United States; College teachers - United States; Authors, American - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-182) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: First sighting -- Bomber boy -- The young academic -- Hemingway vs. Fenton -- Carving a career -- A different planet -- Sailing through air -- What might have been -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on sources -- A Charles A. Fenton bibliography -- Other works consulted.
• Sommario/riassunto: Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismaticteacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. At the time he was apparently at the peak of his career. He had written excellent books on Hemingway and Stephen Vincent Benét, had three other books in press, and was working on a new version of his novel about World War II (a 1945 account won the Doubleday Twentieth Century Fox award). He had earned Guggenheim and ACLS grants. Students flocked to his courses. He was widely regard
• Titolo autorizzato: Death of a rebel
• ISBN: 1-283-39402-2; 9786613394026; 1-61147-494-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789877103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II