Katherine Clark
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
Eugene Walter, Katherine Clark, George Plimpton
“I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.” — Eugene Walter
Eugene Walter was the best-known man you’ve never heard of. In his 76 years, he ate of “the ripened heart of life,” to quote a letter from Isak Dinesen, one of his many illustrious friends. He savored the porch life of his native Mobile, Alabama, in the 1920s and ’30s. He stumbled into the Greenwich Village art scene in late-1940s New York. He was a ubiquitous presence in Paris’s expatriate café society in the 1950s, where he was part of the Paris Review at its…
