Michael Thurston is the author of Making Something Happen: American Political Poets between the World Wars (2001), The Underworld Descent in Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott (2009), and (with Nigel Alderman) Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry (2013). He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Sun Also Rises. His work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Crafting a style: In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises; 4. Consolidating a career: Men without Women and A Farewell to Arms; 5. Men and beasts: fiction and non-fiction of the 1930s (Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, Winner Take Nothing, To Have and Have Not; 6. Men (and women) at war: The Fifth Column, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees; 7: Last and posthumous works: The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast, 'The Dangerous Summer,' Islands in the Stream, and Garden of Eden; 8. Reception.

Michael Thurston is the author of Making Something Happen: American Political Poets between the World Wars (2001), The Underworld Descent in Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott (2009), and (with Nigel Alderman) Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry (2013). He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Sun Also Rises. His work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Crafting a style: In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises; 4. Consolidating a career: Men without Women and A Farewell to Arms; 5. Men and beasts: fiction and non-fiction of the 1930s (Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, Winner Take Nothing, To Have and Have Not; 6. Men (and women) at war: The Fifth Column, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees; 7: Last and posthumous works: The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast, 'The Dangerous Summer,' Islands in the Stream, and Garden of Eden; 8. Reception.

Michael Thurston is the author of Making Something Happen: American Political Poets between the World Wars (2001), The Underworld Descent in Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott (2009), and (with Nigel Alderman) Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry (2013). He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Sun Also Rises. His work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Crafting a style: In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises; 4. Consolidating a career: Men without Women and A Farewell to Arms; 5. Men and beasts: fiction and non-fiction of the 1930s (Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, Winner Take Nothing, To Have and Have Not; 6. Men (and women) at war: The Fifth Column, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees; 7: Last and posthumous works: The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast, 'The Dangerous Summer,' Islands in the Stream, and Garden of Eden; 8. Reception.