Poet in America

About the Book

As James Dickey observed, Winfield Scott’s story is “truer of the typical destruction of an American poet than the accounts of all the Poets, Hart Cranes, and other excessives put together.”

About the Author

A prize-winning literary biographer, Scott Donaldson wrote this biography—his first—with a greater passion and commitment to its subject than any of his six succeeding life stories. He came to feel a kinship with Winfield Scott that extended well beyond mere admiration.