Sentences with phrase «earlier men of letters»

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It was there in Manhattan he was unhappily schooled, first at the Male School on Crosby Street and then at the Columbia Grammar School, and there he returned thirty years later to spend the bitter, dark end of his life — a misemployed customs inspector turned drunkard, possibly a wife - beater, and the forgotten man of American letters: a minor author who'd written a scandalous sea - tale or two early in life and hadn't had the sense to quit writing.

He may have become a leading man of letters, but he did it financed by the ill - gotten gains of early crime.

Letters of Note — People simply empty out — Charles Bukowski — A letter sent in 1986 by the poet and novelist to the man who fifteen years earlier sprang him from the workaday world with the offer of $ 100 a month for life.