The Essays of Leonard Michaels

Nonfiction from "one of the strongest and most arresting prose talents of his generation" (Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).

Leonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are among the most thrilling evocations of growing up in the New York of the 1950s and '60s—and of continuing to grow up, in the cultural turmoil of the '70s and '80s, as a writer, teacher, lover, and reader. The same honesty and ...