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At once a narrative biography and a medical history, Manon's World tells the story of a haunted young woman caught in the middle of a love triangle in interwar Germany. Manon Gropius (1916-1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, and the stepdaughter of the writer Franz Werfel. In Manon's World, James Reidel explores the life and death of a child at the cen...

A critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees (1914-55) performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists--the middle generation of twentieth-century American letters, which included Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, and a select number of others. His disappearance at the age of forty-one, which still places a question mark on his suicide, a...