THE HERO CONTINUES: A NOVEL - INSCRIBED TO W.H. AUDEN

by Donald Windham

$1,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. First Edition. An early published work by Windham 1920-2010 , his novel based on the life of his close friend Tennessee Williams, the book's dedicatee. An Atlanta native, Windham and his lover, Fred Melton, left for Manhattan in the late 1930's, where Windham was absorbed into the city's literary and artistic society. It was there he befriended Williams, Truman Capote, Paul Cadmus, Carl Van

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