San Antonio College Library

"Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life is the story of an aspiring writer who failed and then, desperate for money, tried again and wrote himself out of penny-a-word pulp magazines and into a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Based upon unrestricted access to all of Richter's letters, journals, notebooks, and private papers, this biography offers an intimate account of Richter's personal struggle to achieve success in his own and in other people's...

A chronology, brief biographical summary, bibliography, and extensive critical analysis of Richter's work emphasizing the lack of soundness in the philosophical theories of his essays and the excellence of the art with which his best fiction, notably his historical works, outsoared his attempted application of these theories to his creative writing.