This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works - notably Gravity's Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction - remain mysterious to many, just as his life remains reclusive.
Albert Rolls earned his doctorate at the National University of Ireland, Galway and has published on numerous subjects: William Shakespeare, John Donne, Alexander Pope, Charlotte Lennox, and Thomas Pynchon among others. He has taught at a variety of CUNY campuses, as well as at other colleges, and worked as an editor at various publishing companies, including serving as editor-in-chief at AMS Press, Inc.
