Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by E.B. Long

The twelve books he has written include the novels A Distant Drum and More Lives Than One. It won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Love is a Bridge, Flood’s first novel, received nationwide critical attention, and was on the New York Times Bestseller list for 26 weeks. (In 2001, Flood was honored with the Lampoon’s Clem Wood Award past recipients have included George Plimpton, John Updike, and Conan O’Brien.) More than any other American before or since, Grant, in his last year, was able to heal this-the country’s greatest wound.Ĭharles Bracelen Flood was born in Manhattan, and graduated from Harvard, where he was a member of Archibald MacLeish’s noted creative writing seminar, English S, and was on the literary board of the Harvard Lampoon.

Published after his death by his friend Mark Twain, Grant’s Memoirs became an instant bestseller, restoring his family’s financial health and, more importantly, helping to cure the nation of bitter discord. Grant finished Memoirs just four days before he died in July 1885. Lee at Appomattox, people in both the North and the South came to know Grant as the brave, honest man he was, now using his famous determination in this final effort. Twenty years after his respectful and magnanimous demeanor toward Robert E. As Grant continued his work, suffering increasing pain, the American public became aware of this race between Grant’s writing and his fatal illness. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial ruin. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by E.B. Long