Eric G. Wilson is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can’t Look Away, Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace, and five books on the relationship between literature and psychology.
Books in order of publication:
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy – 2008
The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace – 2010
My Business Is to Create: Blake’s Infinite Writing – 2011
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can’t Look Away – 2012
Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life – 2015
How to Make a Soul: The Wisdom of John Keats – 2015
Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb – 2022
How to Be Weird: An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life – 2022
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