understand why his son committed suicide leads to his own attempted suicide. Richard Lipez said of this novel: "To pick up Humphrey’s extraordinary new novel is to hold an embodiment of grief in your hands. The unrelenting anguish that suffuses this story [is] almost unbearable to behold. It is possible to get through it because the stark poetry of Humphrey’s work is enthralling." (Newsweek) His last book was September Song (1992), a collection of short stories about old age. The collection of Humphrey’s letters, Far from Home (2008), provides enlightening analysis of his own works. They also display his relationship with other writers, including Katherine Anne Porter, Theodore Weiss, and Rust Hill. Jonathan Yardley, writing in The Washington Post (issue of 5 July 1992), remarked of Humphrey: "Minor, but interesting and admirable. It has been a long time since Humphrey has enjoyed a commercial success, but he has dedicated his life to his writing with a fidelity all too rare in a culture that encourages facile success and empty honor." Bibliography Books Note: The titles are listed referencing the original hard cover publishers. All are now published in digital form by Open Road Media The Last Husband and Other Stories. New York, Morrow, 1953. Home from the Hill. New York: Knopf, 1958. The Ordways. New York: Knopf, 1965. A Time and a Place. New York: Knopf, 1968. The Spawning Run. New York: Knopf, 1970. Proud Flesh. New York: Knopf, 1973. Farther Off from Heaven. New York: Knopf, 1977. Ah, Wilderness! The Frontier in American Literature. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western University Press, 1977. My Moby Dick. New York: Doubleday, 1978. Hostages to Fortune. New York: Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, 1984. Open Season : Sporting Adventures. New York: Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, 1986. No Resting Place. New York: Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, 1989. September Song. New York: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1992. .Further reading Mark Royden Winchell, William Humphrey, Boise State University, Boise, 1992. Bert Almon, William Humphrey: Destroyer of Myths, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 1998. References External links William Humphrey New York Times Obituary William Humphrey -- Encyclopædia Britannica People from Clarksville, Texas 20th-century American novelists 1924 births 1997 deaths Bard College faculty Novelists from Texas Southern Methodist University alumni University of Texas at Austin alumni American male novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers Novelists from New York