Tom C. Owens is Associate Professor of Music at George Mason University.

"This is the most informative and revealing direct line to Charles Ives and his context since John Kirkpatrick's edition of the Memos came out in 1972." -- Peter Dickinson Gramophone

• list of illustrations acknowledgments introduction 1. childhood, hopkins, and yale (1881--1903) 2. courtship and marriage (1907--1908) 3. call and response (1911--1936) 4. health (1907--1954) 5. collaborators and champions (1923--1933) 6. travel (1930--1938) 7. editors and performers (1933--1944) 8. final years (1945--1954) appendix: list of letters and formats selected bibliography index

Tom C. Owens is Associate Professor of Music at George Mason University.

"This is the most informative and revealing direct line to Charles Ives and his context since John Kirkpatrick's edition of the Memos came out in 1972." -- Peter Dickinson Gramophone

• list of illustrations acknowledgments introduction 1. childhood, hopkins, and yale (1881--1903) 2. courtship and marriage (1907--1908) 3. call and response (1911--1936) 4. health (1907--1954) 5. collaborators and champions (1923--1933) 6. travel (1930--1938) 7. editors and performers (1933--1944) 8. final years (1945--1954) appendix: list of letters and formats selected bibliography index