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John W. Aldridge (1922–2007)

Author of After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Collection of Critical Essays (1963) — Contributor — 63 copies
Selected Stories By P.G. Wodehouse (1958) — Editor; Introduction, some editions — 59 copies, 1 review
Politics of Twentieth-Century Novelists (1971) — Foreword, some editions — 12 copies
Twelve Original Essays on Great American Novels (1958) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Penguin New Writing No. 35 (1948) — Contributor — 8 copies
Contemporary American Novelists (1964) — Contributor — 7 copies
New World Writing #13: Stories, Poetry, Essays, Drama (1958) — Contributor — 5 copies
Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski (1998) — Contributor — 1 copy

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After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the… by John W. Aldridge
435. After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars, by John W. Aldridge (read 4 June 1952) On June 3, 1952, as I was reading this book I said to myself: "In this critical study of postwar 'new' novelists the author exposes the utter sterility of their views, but purblindly ignores the obvious need for an end to disbelief." Among the 'new' novelists discussed: Vance Bourjaily, Norman Mailer, John Horne Burns, Irwin Shaw, Merle Miller, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles, Truman Capote, and Frederick Buechner. [ I have as of 2011 read something by each of said authors except Burns]… (more)
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