Following the much-deserved rediscovery of early modernist Ronald Firbank's works in the 1980s, this annotated bibliography collects reviews of the satirist's books, synopses of books and essays about Firbank, references to creative works inspired by the author, dissertation and theses abstracts, and even a chapter of foreign-language materials devoted to Firbank. Showcasing an underappreciated artist, this bibliography is a record of how Ronald Firbank has been misinterpreted, praised, lost, and found again.
Steven Moore--author, literary critic, editor, bookseller--was born outside Los Angeles in 1951, and moved to Littleton, Colorado, in 1963. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Northern Colorado (1973, 1974), and later a Ph.D. from Rutgers University (1988). From 1988 until 1996 he was Managing Editor of the Dalkey Archive Press/Review of Contemporary Fiction, and has at various periods in his life worked as a bookseller for both independents and chains. He lives alone in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He is the author/editor of several books and essays on modern literature, especially on William Gaddis, and for years has reviewed new books for a variety of periodicals, primarily for the Washington Post. In April 2010, Continuum published the first volume of his "The Novel: An Alternative History."
