Notes to Thomas Volume Two

About the Book

Truth plays a central role in this dramatic tale featuring an obscure glory-seeking poet and a young admirer, Brett Thomas, whom he maneuvers into helping him up the ladder to fame. Obsessed with the poet at risk of all other relationships, and spinning on to his own rung of honor as Harvard Professor and Biographer of Nathaniel Hightower, America's Great Poet, Thomas gives to the world a romantic vision of Hightower, omitting the dark side of his personality and family secrets that haunt him. When a stunning betrayal leads him into withdrawing the biography, only then does Thomas set out to tell, bitterly at first, then with the compassion all human struggle deserves, Hightower's true story, and his own, this time in novel form, this novel, Notes to Thomas.

About the Author

Born in Oklahoma City, Hilda White spent her formative years in New Orleans, La. and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Upon graduating from Chattanooga High School in 1936 she moved to New York where her writing career began in the years following her marriage and the birth of her children. Wild Decembers, fictionalizing the life of the Brontës, and Song Without End, The Love Story of Clara and Robert Schumann were published by E. P. Dutton. Truth is My Country, Portraits of Eight New England Authors was published by Doubleday. Now residing in Berkeley, California, Hilda White has also authored two volumes of poetry.