| Name: |
Richard (Lee) Rhodes |
| Variant Name: |
|
| Birth Date: |
|
| Nationality: |
|
| Gender: |
|
Richard Rhodes emerged as one of the major nonfiction artists of this age with The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), his sprawling, 886-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning saga that chronicles what he described in a 1994 interview as the "great epic tragedy of the twentieth century: mankind inventing the means of its own destruction." When he followed with two other highly acclaimed works, Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer (1989) and A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood (1990), and then explored human sexuality in the controversial Making Love: An Erotic Odyssey (1992), he entrenched himself as one of the preeminent talents in contemporary American literature, a lyrical voice sounding unmistakable echoes of Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Joseph Conrad.
In the 1991 revised version of The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West (1970) Rhodes states that for him, writing "is done out of pain, and no amount of writing will take away the pain; the pain is to be alive." He is the quintessential tortured poet, driven by an almost obsessive need to explore human suffering.
This is a free page. This page contains 151 words. This
biography contains 7,456 words (approx. 25 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Biography with our Richard (Lee) Rhodes Access Pass.
