A portrait of the Jazz Age socialite and publisher discusses his work with the Black Sun Press, relationships with godfather J. P. Morgan and friend Ernest Hemingway, self-destructive activities at the heart of the Parisian wild life, and death in the wake of a murder-suicide. Original. Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the Twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the Lost Generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosbys pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosbys pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself.Black Sun is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolffs subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.
