Don Noble

The Eleventh House is a remarkable memoir by an influential critic, teacher, world traveler, and raconteur whose sheer exuberance helped to form a network of literary friendships unparalleled in twentieth-century arts and letters. Hudson Strode—writer, gardener, gourmet, and world traveler—proceeds from his childhood home in Alabama to the international literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, recounting meetings with Eugene O'Neill, H. L. Mencken, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, the Prince of Wales, and the King of Sweden.