MIDNIGHT ON THE DESERT : Being an Excursion Into Autobiography During a Winter in America 1935-36

New York NY: Harper & Bros, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As New. Navy linen boards/VG, w/trace edge rubs, wear to corner tips, and showing faint discoloration. DJ/None. PO name & date (April 14th, 1937) pencilled to fEP. Autobiography/essays. Author, the prolific novelist,playwright, essayist, broadcaster, scriptwriter, social commentator and man of letters, J.B. Priestly (1894 - 1984) wintered, with his family, on an Arizona ranch last year, Priestley spent an intensely ruminative 20 minutes one midnight in his writing shack analyzing himself, his U. S. travels, his possible travels in the Hereafter. This volume expands his midnight thoughts. Priestly had spent "a month writing a novel about London" and had procrastinated in destroying. In a black mood, he knew he was not homesick, but felt himself like "a half-starved little coyote . . . howling to the stars." John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 - 14 August 1984), known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions (1929),[why?] as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls. His output included literary and social criticism.