Literary Brooklyn : the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life / Evan Hughes.

"A Holt paperback."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The grandfather of literary Brooklyn : Walt Whitman -- The street was everything : Henry Miller -- Out of the fray : Hart Crane and Marianne Moore -- A long way from New York : Thomas Wolfe -- The longest journey : Daniel Fuchs, Bernard Malamud, Alfred Kazin -- The great migration : Richard Wright -- The birth of Brooklyn cool : "February house" and Truman Capote -- The shadow of the war : William Styron and Sophie's choice -- Underground rumbles : Norman Mailer -- The postwar chill : Arthur Miller, Pete Hamill, Hubert Selby, Jr -- Into the thickets of urban crisis : Jonathan Lethem, L.J. Davis, Paula Fox -- A hint of things to come : Paul Auster, a renaissance in Fort Greene -- A literary capital : the Brooklyn of today.

Presents a literary history of Brooklyn that chronicles the New York City borough's literary origins while tracing its cultural beginnings in its regional literary traditions, citing the contributions of such major writers as Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright, and Truman Capote.