Of the four biographies he published in the 1930s, Frank Harris (1932) was a witty and ironic exercise in demythology, identifying his one - time literary hero as an inverted puritan' with a heart of borrowed gold'; and his Samuel Johnson (1933) a succinct and humane study of' an intensely loving and compassionate soul handicapped in its expression by lifelong disabilities of mind and body'.
Of the four biographies he published in the 1930s, Frank Harris (1932) was a witty and ironic exercise in demythology, identifying his one - time literary hero as an inverted puritan' with a cold, mean heart'; and his Samuel Johnson (1933) a succinct and humane study of' an intensely loving and compassionate soul handicapped in its expression by lifelong disabilities of mind and body'.