God and the American Writer

God and the American Writer does more to illuminate the fundamental purposes and motivations of our greatest writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner than any study I have read in the past fifty-five years—that is, since the same author's On Native Grounds.
—Louis S. Auchincloss

This is the culminating work of the finest living critic of American literature.  Alfred Kazin brings a lifetime of thought and reading to the triumphant elucidation of his fascinating and slippery subjects: what …