Bøker av Christoph Irmscher

Intelligent, adaptable, and strong-willed, Lucy Bakewell Audubon was, DeLatte shows, the partner Audubon needed for his life and for his work. As noted Audubon expert Christoph Irmscher says in his foreword, "When [DeLatte] slips into her character's skin, she does so unobtrusively and to great effect, thus, we are right there with Lucy."

Christoph Irmscher is Provost Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington and GeorgeF. Getz Jr. Professor in the Wells Scholars Program, which he also directs. Among his booksare The Poetics of Natural History, Longfellow Redux, Private Poet, Public Man, and LouisAgassiz: Creator of American Science. He is the editor of the Library of America edition of JohnJames Audubon's Writings and Drawings and of a new biography of Max Eastman, forthcomingfrom Yale University Press.Rosamond Purcell is a photographer known for her work in natural history collections and forthe recreation of the seventeenth century Danish museum of Ole Worm. Her books include Egg& Nest, Bookworm, and Dice: Deception, Fate and Rotten Luck with Ricky Jay. She is the authorof Owls Head: On the Nature of Lost Things, a biography of a junkyard.

The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual

In defense of America's first "pop" poet