Reviews
"Riveting reading....Pyron offers a compelling portrait of the spirited,complex author of Gone With the Wind, a perceptive psychological analysis of thenovel, and an examination of the work's changing critical fortunes as the Southhas been transformed....The reader is swept right along....A fascinatingportrait."--Kirkus Reviews, "Riveting reading....Pyron offers a compelling portrait of the spirited, complex author ofGone With the Wind, a perceptive psychological analysis of the novel, and an examination of the work's changing critical fortunes as the South has been transformed....The reader is swept right along....A fascinating portrait."--Kirkus Reviews "Not just a biography of an interesting woman (although it certainly is that). It is also a fascinating portrait of the 'smart set' of the interwar South, a class itself now gone with the wind, yet one that in its time produced a remarkable outpouring of literary and journalistic talent. Pyron's account deserves the attention of anyone interested in twentieth-century Southern letters--or twentieth-century Southern life."--John Shelton Reed,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Riveting reading....Pyron offers a compelling portrait of the spirited, complex author of Gone With the Wind , a perceptive psychological analysis of the novel, and an examination of the work's changing critical fortunes as the South has been transformed....The reader is swept right along....A fascinating portrait."-- Kirkus Reviews "Not just a biography of an interesting woman (although it certainly is that). It is also a fascinating portrait of the 'smart set' of the interwar South, a class itself now gone with the wind, yet one that in its time produced a remarkable outpouring of literary and journalistic talent. Pyron's account deserves the attention of anyone interested in twentieth-century Southern letters--or twentieth-century Southern life."--John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Not just a biography of an interesting woman (although it certainly is that). It is also a fascinating portrait of the 'smart set' of the interwar South, a class itself now gone with the wind, yet one that in its time produced a remarkable outpouring of literary and journalistic talent.Pyron's account deserves the attention of anyone interested in twentieth-century Southern letters--or twentieth-century Southern life."--John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Not just a biography of an interesting woman (although it certainly isthat). It is also a fascinating portrait of the 'smart set' of the interwarSouth, a class itself now gone with the wind, yet one that in its time produceda remarkable outpouring of literary and journalistic talent. Pyron's accountdeserves the attention of anyone interested in twentieth-century Southernletters--or twentieth-century Southern life."--John Shelton Reed, University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Riveting reading....Pyron offers a compelling portrait of the spirited, complex author of Gone With the Wind, a perceptive psychological analysis of the novel, and an examination of the work's changing critical fortunes as the South has been transformed....The reader is swept right along....Afascinating portrait."--Kirkus Reviews, "Riveting reading....Pyron offers a compelling portrait of the spirited, complex author of Gone With the Wind, a perceptive psychological analysis of the novel, and an examination of the work's changing critical fortunes as the South has been transformed....The reader is swept right along....A fascinating portrait."--Kirkus Reviews "Not just a biography of an interesting woman (although it certainly is that). It is also a fascinating portrait of the 'smart set' of the interwar South, a class itself now gone with the wind, yet one that in its time produced a remarkable outpouring of literary and journalistic talent. Pyron's account deserves the attention of anyone interested in twentieth-century Southern letters--or twentieth-century Southern life."--John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
