Summary

Andersen has translated for the first time Zola's youthful and not-so-youthful letters to his boyhood friend and fellow warrior, Paul Cezanne. He also translated for the first time most of Cezanne's youthful poetry, written in letters sent from Aix-En-Provence to Zola in Paris.

Author Bio

Wayne Andersen is professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the 1950s while attending the University of California at Berkeley, he was an abstract expressionist painter and architectural designer in the San Francisco Bay area. He moved to New York in 1959 to undertake graduate studies in art history and archeology at Columbia. After completing his doctorate and spending a year as senior curator of the Walker Art Center, he spent two years in Paris before joining the Department of Architecture at MIT in 1965. Through the 1970s and 1980s, the firm he founded, Vesti Design International, carried out major architectural projects in Saudi Arabia. He is the author of nine books and many essays. He currently resides in Boston with his wife, the landscape historian Phyllis Andersen.