This second husband of Mary McCarthy included "The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles" and "The Princess with the Golden Hair" in his Memoirs of Hecate County.
One of this author's books begins with a story in which Clarence Latouche murders Asa Stryker, who had become rich from killing the title animals. That book by this author was declared obscene for a section about a man who bounces from casual sexual encounters with the working-class Brooklyn girl Anna and the pampered suburbanite Imogen. Another of his books begins with an introduction which notoriously compares governments to sea slugs which prey on smaller organisms. This second husband of Mary McCarthy included "The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles" and "The Princess with the Golden Hair" in his Memoirs of Hecate County. He wrote an overview of Symbolist literature named for a prose poem by Villiers de l'Isle Adam, as well as a massive overview of the literature of the Civil War. For 10 points, name this American literary critic, the author of Axel's Castle and Patriotic Gore.
One of this author's books begins with a story in which Clarence Latouche murders Asa Stryker, who had become rich from killing the title animals.
Edmund Wilson