Grass Lark: Study of Lafcadio Hearn

It is remarkable how persistent a "minor" writer may be. He may lack the large vision and universal message of the great writer, but instead possess a clear, true, intense view of particular places, people, and situations that renders his work unique and irreplaceable. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is such a figure in American literature, due in part to his role as a remarkable journalist, translator, travel writer, and scholar of Japanese culture. Hearn's life is brilliantly recounted in Stevenson's sensitive and sympathetic biography.