“a confidence man, ivory poacher and all-round rogue “
The opening line of John Seabrook’s Wikipedia bio is pretty impressive, but here we find a better: Pseudonym of UK-born author William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940), who emigrated to the USA…
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
The opening line of John Seabrook’s Wikipedia bio is pretty impressive, but here we find a better: Pseudonym of UK-born author William Lancaster Gribbon (1879-1940), who emigrated to the USA…
Reading F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up I came across a reference to a William Seabrook: William Seabrook in an unsympathetic book tells, with some pride and a movie ending, of…