Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-229) and index.
Partners no more : Mark Twain and Bret Harte -- The boy with the interested eyes : Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein -- The slap heard 'round the world : Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and the Nobel Prize -- Not always a "pleasant tussle": the difficult friendship of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov -- The battle of the "two cultures": C.P. Snow and F.R. Leavis -- "Now there's a play": Lillian Hellman and Mary MCarthy -- Les Enfants Terribles: Truman Capote and Gore Vidal -- Not-so-dry bones: Tom Wolfe, John Updike, and the perils of literary ambition