'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. 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.' 'Sherill Tippins's February House, enlivened by primary sources and an unforgettable story, recreates daily life at the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century.'--BOOK JACKET. This 2005 Scribner Hardback is in very good condition. Dj. ISBN: 9780743257244 SKU: 1462429 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.
