The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts

The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane (immortalized by The Red Badge of Courage"); British artist Dora Carrington (called the most neglected serious painter of her time ); and the legendary composer George Gershwin ("Rhapsody in Blue