A Minority of One

A Minority of One

A review of Writing Home: Selected World War II Letters of Leslie Fiedler ed. Samuele F.S. Pardini, 464 pages, E State University of New York Press (December 2024)Upon his death in 2003, a number of obit writers referred to American literary critic Leslie Fiedler as “the wild man of literature.” Typical of this characterisation was a parting salute in Slate, in which Sam Tanenhaus remarked, “Fiedler was the original chest-thumping extrovert of A…