Edmund Morris

Edmund Morris and Beethoven

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

This month marks the 235th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. There’s a huge shelf-ful of books about the composer, but this year Edmund Morris, the celebrated biographer of American presidents, wrote his own short life of Beethoven. Morris won the Pulitzer Prize for one of his books about Theodore Roosevelt, and is the author […]

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