John James Audubon (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Rhodes
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1785-1851
- Setting: France, England, and the United States
- Principal Characters: John James Audubon, Jean Audubon, John Woodhouse Audubon, Lucy Audubon, Lucy Bakewell Audubon, John Bachman, Nicholas Berthoud, Robert Havell, Alexander Wilson, Sir Walter Scott
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, France or French people, Nature, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, Books, Painting or painters, Birds, Naturalists
- Locales: France, United States, England
Two excellent biographies of John James Audubon appeared in 2004: William Souder's Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of “The Birds of America” and Duff Hart-Davis's Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of “The Birds of America.” It seems necessary to ask, therefore, what Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes can add to this inspiring, if often-told, story.
Rhodes's publisher promotes his book as the first major biography in forty years, adding: “Here is a revelation of Audubon as the major American artist he is....
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