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From: Biography
Date: 20060101
Author:Miles, Jonathan
Grey, Zane Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women. Thomas H. Pauly. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2005. 385 pp. $34.95.
"Pauly is an unquenchable researcher who seems to have missed nothing in his quest (though certain bits, like Grey's sex diaries, were off limits for him to quote); his writing, however, plods along at times like an overburdened pack mule, stumbling awkwardly when he reaches for flair (Dolly 'was faithful Penelope, steadfastly loyal to her restless, driven Odysseus'). The Zane Grey who emerges here is self-absorbed and adolescently melodramatic, ...
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