Backstory by Wells, Dean Faulkner; Wells, Lawrence;

A Literary Life on the Run

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Kiadó University Press of Mississippi
Megjelenés dátuma 2026. augusztus 17.

ISBN 9781496863249
Kötéstípus Puhakötés
Lásd még 9781496863232
Terjedelem234 oldal
Méret 229x152 mm
Súly 666 g
Nyelv angol
Illusztrációk 72 b&w illustrations

Kategóriák

Amerika történelme Életrajzok, levelezések, naplók Újságírás, zsurnalisztika Útinaplók, élménybeszámolók

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For every published article there is a backstory of behind-the-scenes adventures. Between 1980 and 2000, Dean Faulkner Wells and Lawrence Wells traveled coast to coast on magazine assignments. Backstory: A Literary Life on the Run reveals how unexpected events played a major role in each article. The collection of twenty-five articles begins with Dean’s interview with Willie ""Suicide"" Jones, her late father’s wing walker and fellow barnstormer, and ends with Dean’s fond recollection of a childhood Christmas at Rowan Oak, home of her uncle William Faulkner.

In between, the couple travels to Wounded Knee, scene of the tragic massacre of Big Foot and his band of Sioux, where Dean tears out a lock of hair and ties it to a fence in spiritual kinship. In Little Rock, the couple spends an evening with authors Charles Portis and Dee Brown. In San Francisco, they interview California jazz artists ""Wild Mango"" and singer/guitarist Joyce Cooling. They drive the Santa Fe Trail and tour Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo, Texas.

There are personal moments such as attending author Budd Schulberg’s wedding reception in Montauk, New York, and dining at the home of Jackson Pollock’s widow, Lee Krasner. At a Memorial Day party in Long Island, film star Lauren Bacall tells Dean, ""Hey, you sound more like me than me!"" In Daphne, Alabama, Dean visits her longtime friend Peets Buffett, mother of Jimmy Buffett. In a Louisiana swamp, Larry has trouble finding an alligator to photograph until Dean points to a gator dozing at his feet. In Las Vegas, Dean’s addiction to slot machines leads to a domestic squabble. Ultimately, Backstory reveals a marriage of mind and spirit.

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Introduction—Dean F. Wells
1 Backstory: ""The Man Who Walked in the Sky""
THE MAN WHO WALKED IN THE SKY
2 Backstory: ""A Little Piece of America""
A LITTLE PIECE OF AMERICA
3 Backstory: ""Little Bighorn Days""
LITTLE BIGHORN DAYS
4 Backstory: ""Shakespeare Slept Here""
SHAKESPEARE SLEPT HERE
5 Backstory: ""Tom Sawyer’s Hannibal""
TOM SAWYER’S HANNIBAL
6 Backstory: ""Women and Jazz in California""
WOMEN AND JAZZ IN CALIFORNIA
7 Backstory: ""Hitchcock’s Bodega Bay""
HITCHCOCK’S BODEGA BAY
8 Backstory: ""Following the Santa Fe Trail""
FOLLOWING THE SANTA FE TRAIL
9 Backstory: ""Spirits of Palo Duro Canyon""
SPIRITS OF PALO DURO CANYON
10 Backstory: ""Draw, Pardner""
DRAW, PARDNER
11 Backstory: ""History on Ice""
HISTORY ON ICE
12 Backstory: ""Fast Break""
FAST BREAK
13 Backstory: ""To Be a Scrub""
TO BE A SCRUB
14 Backstory: ""Looking for Lady Luck""
LOOKING FOR LADY LUCK
15 Backstory: ""Yoknapatawpha High""
YOKNAPATAWPHA HIGH
16 Backstory: ""Down in a Hole""
DOWN IN A HOLE
17 Backstory: ""Concord’s Authors’ Ridge""
CONCORD’S AUTHORS’ RIDGE
18 Backstory: ""Patriots Day""
PATRIOTS DAY
19 Backstory: ""Poe’s Mysterious Visitor""
POE’S MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
20 Backstory: ""Architect of Monument Valley""
ARCHITECT OF MONUMENT VALLEY
21 Backstory: ""Arizona’s Triassic Park""
ARIZONA’S TRIASSIC PARK
22 Backstory: ""Saving Louisiana’s Wetlands""
SAVING LOUISIANA’S WETLANDS
23 Backstory: ""When the Fish Come Up for Air""
WHEN THE FISH COME UP FOR AIR
24 Backstory: ""The Days of Wine and Letters""
THE DAYS OF WINE AND LETTERS
25Backstory: ""A Christmas Remembered""
A CHRISTMAS REMEMBERED
Afterword—Lawrence Wells
Acknowledgments

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