Writing Was Everything - Repr of 1995 Ed Author:Alfred Kazin For more than sixty years, Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a vibrant cultural drama teeming with such characters as Hart Crane and Allen Ginsberg, Simone Weil and F... more »lannery O'Connor, Hannah Arendt and Robert Lowell, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell.« less