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alleged, "I write for myself and strangers," but this self recognized by strangers felt different than the one for whom she originally wrote. 2 Her celebrity had oddly conflated "myself and strangers" into a new public subject irreducible to either author or audience. ## Celebrity Theory and Authorial Autobiography Authors Inc. tracks the developments in American cultural and literary history that enabled Stein, an author whose writing few Americans would even attempt to read, to become for a time one of the most celebrated literary figures in the United States. Stein entered into an already-established authorial star system in which the marketable "personalities" of authors were frequently as important as the quality of their literary production. Authorial celebrities from Jack London and Edith Wharton to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos had become loosely integrated into the larger market in "personalities," and famous authors had become part of the public "society" about which gossip and information circulated in popular newspapers and magazines. Although many high modernist authors dismissed the American culture of celebrity, Stein's fame confirmed that the modernist "genius"

Author

Loren Glass

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814731598

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, History