HEARING HOMER'S SONG: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry

Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove the theory that the Homeric epics were "written," like any other literature. Kanigel gives us a portrait of his marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles, and he explores the circumstances of Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Illus.