Andrew Nelson Lytle Summary

After his participation in the Agrarian symposium I'll Take My Stand in 1930, Andrew Lytle set himself to the task of learning the craft of fiction. Working slowly and carefully, he produced by 1958 f... Read more

Critical Essay by Fred T. Marsh ["The Long Night"] tells a story which succeeds in keeping you on its trail. Whatever else it may be, it is not dull. It seems to be a good many things at... Read more

Critical Essay by Harold L. Weatherby [The remarkable quality of Lytle's memoir, A Wake for the Living, is how] Lytle's dead ancestors exert an almost frightening pressure upon the livin... Read more

Critical Essay by Hamilton Basso ["The Long Night"] will probably rank with Mr. John Peale Bishop's "Act of Darkness" as the best fictional performance of the Southe... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert O. Bowen ["The Velvet Horn"] has a ranging profundity and rich life found in current American fiction only in a Southern setting. Only the South offers a people ... Read more

Critical Essay by Thomas H. Landess One has to admire the total achievement of [The Velvet Horn]: the broad spectrum of characters, the variety of incident, the beautifully cut details, the shifting l... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Penn Warren [The story of revenge related by Andrew Lytle in The Long Night is based on oral tales told in the Cumberland.] But when, in the cold light of morning, the teller ... Read more