The Washington Post, March 14th, 2001
UPHILL WITH ARCHIE By William H. MacLeish Simon & Schuster. 287 pp. $25 In this era of disposable celebrity, Archibald MacLeish is a name that doesn't ring much more than a faint bell. Even many keen readers of American literature can't quite seem to place it. Now his son has come along with a memoir-cum-biography that revisits his father's life and career in touching, lyrical prose. The term "man of letters" was clearly invented to describe someone like Archibald MacLeish. Although not a major writer, he was to win three Pulitzer Prizes, including two for poetry and one for "J.B.," a hit Broa...
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