Author: Valeen Tippetts Avery
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Avery draws on a large body of correspondence for details of David's life and on his poetry to reveal his personality and emotional struggles. She tells of his mental deterioration, starting with a probable breakdown early in 1870 and ending with his death in 1904 in the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Elgin, where he had been confined for twenty-seven years.