Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 244. Chapters: Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Man Ray, Ezra Pound, Robert Crumb, Paul Auster, Gertrude Stein, Tina Turner, Mary Cassatt, Henry Miller, Richard Wright, Jean Seberg, Olivia de Havilland, Alice B. Toklas, Terrence Malick, Johnny Depp, John Singer Sargent, Edith Wharton, William Hurt, Neil Goldschmidt, George H. D. Gossip, Alice de Janzé, Jim Morrison, Natalie Clifford Barney, Nina Simone, Uffie, Alexander Berkman, Rickie Lee Jones, Carole Fredericks, Marsha Hunt, Josephine Baker, Belinda Carlisle, David Sedaris, Dominique Wilkins, James Baldwin, Joseph Nechvatal, Kiki Preston, Herbert Gentry, Sofia Coppola, Jerome Charyn, Chrissie Hynde, Art Buchwald, John Kerr, Jr., Gershon Legman, Pierre Salinger, Susan George, Dorothy Gibson, William Homer Leavitt, Rhys Chatham, Sarah Tyson Hallowell, Wes Anderson, Richard E. Miller, Jonathan Littell, Bob Welch, Jules Dassin, Theodore Earl Butler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Fontella Bass, Noël Riley Fitch, Jon Winroth, Kent Curtis, Joe Dassin, D'arcy Wretzky, J. Alexander, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Pearl White, Harriet Hallowell, Johnny Griffin, Holly Robinson Peete, Lorraine Bracco, Greg Vanney, Julien Green, Harold Norse, Brooke Burns, Peter Turnley, Chryss Goulandris, Paul Strand, Sarah Chayes, Andrew R. Cobb, Bob Swaim, Billy Thompson, James Brown, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Joe Cannon, Pamela Courson, John Berry, Stanley Pons, Peter Kingsbery, Mickey Baker, Kurt Lockwood, Gertrude T. Widener, Ogden Codman, Jr., Ollie Harrington, Rick Owens, Marianne Wiggins, George Hoyningen-Huene, Patrick Kelly, William L. Alden, Maxine Elliott, Amy Finley, Donald L. Cox, Donald Carroll, Ronald Sokol, Joy Bryant, Arthur Moss, Kevin James, Gilbert Shelton, H. C. Robbins Landon, Emily Frances, King Harvest, Joan Staley, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, Zoë Tamerlis Lund, Deirdre Bolton, Jeane Manson, Mary Jayne Gold, Hughes Rudd, Jill Mulvay Derr, Ward Swingle, Sophie Crumb, Noël Lee, John Levee, Bravig Imbs, Eugene Kurtz, Chan Parker, Diane Johnson, Sondra Peterson, James Thomson, American Church in Paris, Dudley Selden, Jess Hahn, Paul Micou, John Abbey, Laura Clifford Barney, Marc Behm, Nidra Poller, Tara Jarmon. Excerpt: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 - 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry. He became known for his role in developing Imagism, which, in reaction to the Victorian and Georgian poets, favored tight language, unadorned imagery, and a strong correspondence between the verbal and musical qualities of the verse and the mood it expressed. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos, which consumed his middle and late career, and was published between 1917 and 1969. Working in London in the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, Pound helped to discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. It was Pound who was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and for the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote in 1925: "He defends when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He loans them money. He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He si.