title: Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
author:  Geoffrey Wolff 
description: <i>Includes an afterword by the author</i> <br /><br />Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself.<br /><br /><i>Black Sun</i> is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.
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  # CAUGHT ON THE EBB-TIDE
  
  
  ### E. P. Roe
  
  
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  The August morning was bright and fair, but Herbert Scofield's
  
  
  brow was clouded. He had wandered off to a remote part of the grounds
  
  
  of a summer hotel on the Hudson, and seated in the shade of a tree,
  
  
  had lapsed into such deep thought that his cigar had gone out and the
  
  
  birds were becoming bold in the vicinity of his motionless figure.
  
  
  It was his vacation time and he had come to the country ostensibly
  
  
  for rest. As the result, he found himself in the worst state of
  
  
  unrest that he had ever known. Minnie Madison, a young lady he had
  
  
  long admired, was the magnet that had drawn him hither. Her arrival
  
  
  had preceded his by several weeks; and she had smiled a little
  
  
  consciously when in looking at the hotel register late one afternoon
  
  
  his bold chirography met her eye.
  