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This volume presents the story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers--and the country's best-known burlesque performer--in a house in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born here. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her bedroom. W. H. Auden, who along with Benjamin Britten was being excoriated at home in England for absenting himself from the war, presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while he was composing some of the most important work of his career.
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History and criticism, Literary landmarks, English literature, American literature, American Authors, English Authors, Homes and haunts, Communal living, Intellectual life, Biography, Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), history, Britten, benjamin, 1913-1976, Bowles, paul, 1910-1999, Bowles, jane auer, 1917-1973, Lee, gypsy rose, 1914-1970, Mccullers, carson, 1917-1967, New york (n.y.), intellectual life, LGBTQ history, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Auden, w. h. (wystan hugh), 1907-1973, American literature, history and criticism, 20th centuryPeople
Jane Auer Bowles (1917-1973), Gypsy Rose Lee (1914-1970), Carson McCullers (1917-1967), W. H. Auden (1907-1973), Paul Bowles (1910-1999), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Paul Bowles (1910-)Times
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February House
2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn
July 12, 2006, Mariner Books
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February house
2006, Houghton Mifflin
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February house: the story of W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, under one roof in wartime America
2005, Houghton Mifflin Co., Houghton Mifflin
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"A Mariner book."
Originally published in hardback, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297) and index.
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February House is the irresistible story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers -- and the country's best-known burlesque performer -- in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity of life at 7 Middagh, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born, bibulously, in Brooklyn. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her Middagh Street bedroom under the intensely personalized tutelage of editor extraordinaire George Davis. Auden, who along with Britten was being excoriated at home in England for absenting himself from the war, presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while he was composing some of the most important work of his career. Sherill Tippins's February House, enlivened by primary sources and an unforgettable story, masterfully recreates daily life at the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century. - Jacket flap.
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