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Jean Strause

    Jean Strouse is an American biographer celebrated for her incisive and deeply researched life stories. Her work typically delves into significant figures in American history and culture, exploring their inner lives and broader societal impact. Strouse possesses a remarkable talent for bringing historical individuals to life through meticulous research and compelling narrative, offering readers profound insights into both the subjects and their eras. Her analytical rigor and literary style have established her as a distinguished voice in biographical writing.

    Alice James
    • Alice James

      • 367 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.9(60)Add rating

      The Jameses are perhaps the most extraordinary and distinguished family in American intellectual life. Henry’s novels, celebrated as among the finest in the language, and William’s groundbreaking philosophical and psychological works have won these brothers a permanent place at the center of the nation’s cultural firmament. Less well known is their enigmatic younger sister, Alice. But as Jean Strouse’s generous, probing, and deeply sympathetic biography shows, Alice James was a fascinating and exceptional figure in her own right. Tormented throughout her short life by an array of nervous disorders, constrained by social convention and internal conflict from achieving the worldly success she desired, Alice was nonetheless a vivid, witty writer, an acute social observer, and as alert, inquiring, and engaging a person as her two famous brothers. “The moral and philosophical questions that Henry wrote up as fiction and William as science,” writes Strouse, “Alice simply lived.”

      Alice James