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Reviewed on January 18, 2019 | Nonfiction
Mewshaw, who has written fiction, memoir, and literary biography (e.g., Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal), first came to know the late novelist Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides; The Great Santini) when they were both young writers living in Rome. Their wives and children were close, and the two men seemed to develop a friendship based on th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More