First Loves

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First Loves tells of a life driven by the twin lusts of romantic love and writing. A legendary editor and literary critic, Ted Solotaroff takes the reader over the rocky course of his education and rebellion in the '50s and through an early marriage that commutes between heaven and hell. A young man's intellectual coming-of-age [story] with nuanced honesty and genuine emotion' - Kirkus Reviews'

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First Loves is a beautiful, funny and finally heartbreaking story of love won and lost; it is also an unforgettable account of American culture in the post-War period . . . equally inspired by the muse of fiction and the muse of history, story under oath. Alan Shapiro


Ted Solotaroff joined the ranks of such artful autobiographers [as Tobias Wolff and Mary Carr] withTruth Comes in Blows. InFirst Loveshis coming of age as a writer, student, teacher, husband and father is told with sensitivity and skill . . . and no less moving or artful for being true. Dan Wakefield, the Nation

Author Bio

TED SOLOTAROFF was an editor of Commentary and the editor of Bookweek before he founded the influential literary journal New American Review, later American Review. The first volume of his memoirs, Truth Comes in Blows (1998), won the Martha Albrand award for 1998 from American PEN for the art of the memoir, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award. Solotaroff is the author of two acclaimed books of criticism and cultural commentary, The Red-hot Vacuum and A Few Good Voices in My Head. He lives in East Quogue, Long Island, and in Paris.