LONGFELLOW: A REDISCOVERED LIFE Paperback, 317 pages

In the first biography of Longfellow in almost fifty years, Charles C. Calhoun seeks to solve a mystery: Why has one of America's most famous writers fallen into such oblivion? Can we truly understand nineteenth-century America if we ignore someone whose words were on everyone's lips - and who even today remains "the one poet average, non-bookish Americans still know by heart"? Newly released in paperback.