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Pauly’s Zane Grey book featured in NY Times 2:14 p.m., Jan. 3, 2006--A new biography of Zane Grey by the University of Delaware’s Thomas H. Pauly is featured in The New York Times Book Review of Jan. 1, which is a special issue on literary lives. Pauly, professor of English, is the author of Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women, which was published by the University of Illinois Press. The book outlines the wild and colorful life of Grey, the hugely popular writer who made the Western a staple of American life. The book is the first full-length biography of Grey to appear in more than 30 years and is the first to take a no-holds-barred look at the most successful American writer of the 1920s, a man with a passion for adventure, amorous and otherwise. In the review, Jonathan Miles, a contributing editor to Men’s Journal, wrote, “Pauly is an unquenchable researcher who seems to have missed nothing in his inquest.” Pauly’s revelations about the author’s personal life provide “a major correction to the wholesome image Grey enjoyed for almost a century,” Miles wrote. Pauly said he was pleased by the attention from The New York Times, and added that the review has produced a dramatic upsurge of sales of the book. “Although the review was more about Zane Grey than my book, it was engaging and well-written, and that kind of a review, in a paper like the Times, is the best kind of promotion an author can hope for,” Pauly said. |
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