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Also by Thomas Mallon:

Up With the Sun, February 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Finale, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Watergate, March 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Yours Ever, November 2009
Hardcover
Fellow Travelers, May 2007
Hardcover
Stolen Words, July 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Henry and Clara, August 1995
Paperback (reprint)

YOURS EVER
By: Thomas Mallon

People and Their Letters

Pantheon
November 2009
On Sale: November 10, 2009
352 pages
ISBN: 0679444262
EAN: 9780679444268
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.

Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his own insightful and eloquent commentary on the circumstances and characters of the world’s most intriguing letter writers. Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the court of Louis XIV, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the besotted midlife billets-doux of a suddenly rejuvenated Woodrow Wilson, the casually brilliant spiritual musings of Flannery O’Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, the cries from prison of Sacco and Vanzetti. Along with the confessions and complaints and revelations sent from battlefields, frontier cabins, and luxury liners, a reader will find Mallon considering travel bulletins, suicide notes, fan letters, and hate mail–forms as varied as the human experiences behind them.

Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature–a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.

Media Buzz

Diane Rehm Show - NPR - February 23, 2011
Diane Rehm Show - NPR - December 9, 2009
Fresh Air - NPR - December 1, 2009