Charles Jackson

A Narrative Of The Sufferings And Escape Of Charles Jackson

Late Resident At Wexford, In Ireland (1802)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9781161991444
• ISBN-10: 1161991441
• Artikelnr.: 30962252

Autorenporträt

Charles Jackson lived a quintessentially tragic, sometime glamorous and tortured literary life - living in The Dakota, The Chelsea Hotel and dying at St Vincent's Hospital of complications of the tuberculosis he had decades earlier treated at a Swiss sanatorium. A queer writer, he struggled with writer's block, mental health challenges, and various addictions to pills and drink, while all the while carrying on a highly successful career as a radio and TV writer, and famous novelist. Born in America in 1903, he began binge-drinking during The Great Depression. In later life, he attempted suicide and was sent to the infamous Bellevue Hospital, in New York. Married, with two children, he nonetheless lived a complex, bisexual life, best understood by reading his works, now seen to be more autobiographical than they were known to be at time of publication.