ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J.R. Moehringer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2000, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Tender Bar and coauthor of Open by Andre Agassi.
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Copyright © 2012 J.R. Moehringer
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Chapter One: On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Penguin Classics
Chapters One, Thirteen, Nineteen, Twenty-One, and Twenty-Two: “Francesca” by Ezra Pound, from Personae, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound, © Estate of Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and Faber and Faber, Ltd.
Chapter Nine: From COMPLETE POEMS OF HART CRANE by Hart Crane, edited by Marc Simon. Copyright 1933, 1958, 1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright © 1986 by Marc Simon. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Part Two Opener: From SOLDIERS’ PAY by William Faulkner. Copyright 1954 by William Faulkner. Copyright 1926 by Boni & Liveright, Inc. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Chapter Twelve: © Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim and John Willett, Threepenny Opera and Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Frontmatter map © 2012 by David Cain
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Moehringer, J.R.
Sutton / J.R. Moehringer. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-4013-2314-1
PS3613.O3346S88 2012
813'.6—dc23
2011052473
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