Article: Becoming What One Is.(Brief Article)

By Austin Warren. University of Michigan Press, 172 pp., $32.50.

THIS LONG-AWAITED autobiography of the distinguished literary scholar and critic Austin Warren, with a perceptive foreword by Russel Fraser, one of Warren's former colleagues at the University of Michigan, is an account of a search that ended perhaps only with the author's life. Born into a middle-class New England family, Warren was never at ease with his identity. Was he a gentleman, a genius, a musician (primarily on the organ), a mystic--or something else? It took his whole life to put the diverse parts of himself together. in his concluding chapter Warren comes to see that throughout his career his ...

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