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Wolff, Geoffrey Ansell was born on November 5, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Arthur Saunders III and Rosemary (Loftus) Wolff.
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Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son. In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.
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( Ted and Maisie's parents moved to the community of Blac...)
Ted and Maisie's parents moved to the community of Blackberry Mountain in upstate New York full of hope for the future; they would live a wholesome life rooted in the natural world, free from social constraints and the ugly urban climate of the early seventies. But all this changes when Maisie, age fifteen, stands poised at the top of a waterfall on the 4th of July and looks down over her family and friends before plunging headfirst into the shallow pool, doing herself injuries that will mark them all forever. "The sins of parents are visited on their children in this superb new novel. . . a stinging social and cultural portrait of a time, a place and a generation whose highflown ideals masked a weak moral fiber.. . . While he is writing about the death of dreams, he provides a satisfying ending that is a healthy antidote to much current fiction in which cynicism triumphs over faith and moral turpitude over justice."
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(Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was th...)
Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. Black Sun is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.
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(Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubma...)
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son. In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.
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Wolff, Geoffrey Ansell was born on November 5, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Arthur Saunders III and Rosemary (Loftus) Wolff.
Graduate, Choate School, 1955. Student, Eastbourne School Art, England, 1956. Bachelor summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1961.
Postgraduate, Churchill College, Cambridge University, England, 1964.
Lecturer in comparative literature Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey, 1961-1963. Lecturer in American civilization Istanbul University, 1962-1963. Lecturer aesthetics Maryland Institute College Art, 1965-1969.
Visiting lecturer creative arts Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1970-1971, Ferris professor, 1980, 92. Writer-in-residence Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1982-1995. Professor English and creative writing University California, Irvine, since 1995.
Lecturer English literature Middlebury (Vermont) College, 1976, 78. Visiting lecturer Columbia University, New York City, 1979, Brown University, Providence, 1981, 88, Boston University, 1981. Member policy panel in literature National Education Association.
Book critic Esquire magazine, 1979-1981. Founder Golden Horn literature magazine, 1972. Visiting professor Williams College, 1994.
Director program writing, professor English University California, Irvine, since 1995.
( Ted and Maisie's parents moved to the community of Blac...)
(Ted and Maisie's parents moved to the community of Blackb...)
(Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubma...)
(Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubma...)
(Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was th...)
(A biography of infamous swindler Arthur Samuels Duke Wolff.)
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Princeton Club (New York City), Colonial CLub (Princeton), Dunes Club.
Married Priscilla Bradley Porter, August 21, 1965. Children: Nicholas Hinckley, Justin Porter.