Cosmic Scholar - The Life and Times of Harry Smith - John Szwed Motohiro Hayakawa it is also an intimate

it is also an intimate portrait of his complex emotional and intellectual life

enchanting and surpassingly strange

The Night of the Hunter was shortlisted for the 1955 National Book Award and in the same year was made into a legendary film starring Robert Mitchum as Preacher

and through it he begins his methodical mission to eradicate any remnants of life and humanity in him and pave the way for his self-destruction

in response to theatrical censorship rules that put him on the political “black list” in Mexico City and caused his plays and his pantomime classes at the School of Fine Arts to be cancelled

Cosmic Scholar - The Life and Times of Harry Smith - John Szwed Motohiro Hayakawa it is also an intimateCosmic Scholar The Life and Times of Harry Smith, by John Szwed ISBN 9780374282240 404 page harback published in 2023 by FSG *** The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smiths personality to catch blades of sun. He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task. Dwight Garner, The New York Times Grammy Awardwinning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed