Synopses & Reviews
Married to Genius considers the emotional and artistic commitment in the marriages of nine modern writers: Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. These writers believed that marriage provided their most profound relationships, and although their lives reveal the strains of modern marriage, their creativity was directly inspired by their emotional and intellectual conflicts. It is a fascinating study of how these celebrated figures attempted to integrate life and art.
Review
“These necessarily brief sketches of marriages between talented and frequently egotistic and self-destructive personalities are never dull. The quoted material and the facts have a bite, style, and poignancy. One is left with a series of fascinating and well-documented studies.” —Financial Times