Headlines To Capsule Print Reviews of Ten New Literary Biographies

Author of informal bio finds Jorge 

"rather a nice chap -- and quite well read."
     Borges: A Jolly Good Fellow
 
Is Emily "a secret descendant of Charles...?" 

One critic eagerly makes that case.
     Dickinson: Dickens Daughter…?

 
Ezra's oeuvre makes more use of sensual 

metaphor than most critics formerly suggest.

     Pound: Of Flesh
 
Virginia's letters reveal a perceived need to earn 

quick profits from publication of Mrs. Dalloway.

     Woolf: At the Door
 
Contemplation of extended stay near local pond 

precipitates spiritual crisis for Henry David.
     Thoreau: In For A Loss
 
William's lyrics, in illustrated collection of hundreds, 

flip a well-worn cliche on its head.
     Wordsworth: A Thousand Pictures

 
Poet Robert revealed by this pundit as laureate 

of wintery climes and frozen landscapes.
     Frost: He's A Snow Man
 
The true story behind Oscar's letter to Robert Ross 

on his developing passion for Henry James.
     Wilde: About Harry
 
Expert study provides analysis of E.M.'s “seminal” 

texts on the idea of rape in the early 20^th century.

     Forster: To Have Sex
 
     Soon to be reviewed: 

Whitman: Sampler
Defoe: Horseman of the Apocalypse
Joyce: Ticks
Gorey: Details
Poe: A Tree In Motion
Delillo: Women Who Live in a Shoe
Dreiser: Tears
Wharton: My Nose
Freud: Of His Own Shadow
Parker: Next to Benchley
Bronte: Tsoris
Shaw: 'Nuff
Pound: The Pavement
Doyle: In Trouble
Baum: In Gilead