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The crossing lives of artists is always fascinating. If we are not biography obsessed, our impressions of artists' personalities are acquired through connections in some form with their work. "The February House" is a successful account of what happens when several disperate (sometimes desperate) artists live together in sort of commune. Auden is the main focus, but I found the more Carson McCullers more interesting; and, while the author writes vividly about this period in these artists' lives, I finished wishing to know more about the life of McCullers. This is clearly a book the author put lot into -- I imagine the research was extensive. I enjoyed "The February House" thoroughly. To read of these intriguing writers, composers and musicians working with and around each other made them much more human than many biographers could have portrayed them.
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