Back then
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"Novelist Anne Bernays, born in 1930, and biographer Justin Kaplan, born in 1925, both natives of New York, came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Back Then, written in two separate voices, is the candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books. They both sought self-knowledge and realization through years of psychoanalysis. They brushed shoulders with celebrities like William Faulkner, Somerset Maugham, Marlene Dietrich, and Anatole Broyard.". "Before Bernays and Kaplan met and married, each had enjoyed the sexual and social freedom that, along with the dark shadow of McCarthyism and the Cold War, was among the distinguishing marks of the 1950s. In many other respects, the story they tell could almost as well be about an earlier era."--BOOK JACKET.
Themes & subjects
American NovelistsBiographersBiographyHomes and hauntsIntellectual lifeNovelists, American
First published 2002Characters & people
Setting
New YorkNew York (N.Y.)New York (State)United States20th century
About the authors
Anne Bernays
14 September 1930
Justin Kaplan
1925 – 2014
American writer and editor, best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman.
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