Background
Steegmuller, Francis was born on July 3, 1906 in New Haven. Son of Joseph F. and Bertha R. (Tierney) Steegmuller.
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Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" is a poem that thousands of American children have known and loved, and now Francis Steegmuller and Norbert Guterman have reproduced its haunting beauty in easy French. Barbara Cooney, Caldecott Medal winner, has lent her delicate talent to the gentle and dreamlike illustration of this book. Following the French text is a glossary; the full text of the poem in English; and a short note about Eugene Field.
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(Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrai...)
Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young Flaubert, prone to mysterious fits, hypochondriacal, at odds with and yet dependent on his bourgeois family. Then, drawing on Flaubert's voluminous correspondence, Steegmuller tracks his subject through friendships and love affairs, a trip to the Orient, nervous breakdown and tenuous recovery, and finally into the study, where a mind at once restless and jaded finds a focus in the precisely detailed reality of an imagined woman, utterly ordinary in her unhappiness, whose story was to revolutionize literature.
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(Jean Cocteau, a major French 20th-century artist, was a d...)
Jean Cocteau, a major French 20th-century artist, was a deliberate scandal. The astonishing variety of his work as poet, novelist, playwright, and film-maker (The Blood of a Poet, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus); and the contradictions and paradoxes of his private life, the charm and the nastiness, the generosity, and the egomania, the poise and the anguish of an opium-addicted homosexual, a man who knew everyone who mattered in the arts, and who capped an avant-garde life by entering, without seeming contradiction, the formidable conservative precincts of the Académie Francaise-all this is elegantly woven by Mr Steegmuller into the gorgeous tapestry of this award-winning and riveting biography.
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(Jean Cocteau, a major French 20th-century artist, was a d...)
Jean Cocteau, a major French 20th-century artist, was a deliberate scandal. The astonishing variety of his work as poet, novelist, playwright, and film-maker (The Blood of a Poet, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus); and the contradictions and paradoxes of his private life, the charm and the nastiness, the generosity, and the egomania, the poise and the anguish of an opium-addicted homosexual, a man who knew everyone who mattered in the arts, and who capped an avant-garde life by entering, without seeming contradiction, the formidable conservative precincts of the Académie Francaise-all this is elegantly woven by Mr Steegmuller into the gorgeous tapestry of this award-winning and riveting biography.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010XG5GY/?tag=2022091-20
Steegmuller, Francis was born on July 3, 1906 in New Haven. Son of Joseph F. and Bertha R. (Tierney) Steegmuller.
Student, Dartmouth College, 1924. Bachelor, Columbia University, 1927. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1928.
With Office of War Information, Office of Strategic Services, Washington and France, 1942-1945.
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Member National Institute Arts and Letters (gold medal 1982), Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Century, University (New York City). Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia (Naples).
Married Beatrice Stein, July 1, 1935 (deceased June 1961). Married Shirley Hazzard, December 22, 1963.