Alice James by Jean Strouse

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Book name:	Alice James (2024)
Category:	Autobiography
Author:	Jean Strouse
Language:	English
Publication data:	Jan. 1, 1980, midnight

This biography explores the life of Alice James, the sister of the renowned James brothers, William and Henry. Despite her own intellectual prowess, Alice struggled with the constraints imposed on women of her era and battled chronic illness throughout her life. The book delves into her personal diaries, revealing her sharp insights and the emotional and psychological challenges she faced. It portrays her not just as a passive observer of her more famous family members, but as a perceptive and articulate thinker in her own right, whose contributions to the intellectual landscape of her time have often been overlooked. The 12174th greatest book of all time

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Jean Strouse

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Jean Strouse (born 1945) is an American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan.

Strouse was an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books from 1967 to 1969. She was a book critic at Newsweek magazine from 1979 to 1983, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in September, 2001. She has also held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Human… Read more