Loved itIf you haven't read Black Sun by Jeffrey Wolf, do it. It's the greatest biography I've ever read in my life.
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Black Sun (1976)
Others: Positive Details the life of Harry Crosby, a publisher and member of the Lost Generation who led an excessive lifestyle and eventually committed suicide.
- ISBN:
- 9781590170663
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- 367 pages
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