Love’s Story Told

“Love’s Story Told is a remarkable biography, with a startling tale to tell about the man who is its subject, the woman he loved, and the literary and psychological myths that dominated their lives.”—Alfred Kazin, The New York Review of Books

“A provocative, beautifully written, ‘gloves off’ examination of connections between the man, his work, and his loves. I found the book profoundly engaging, forcing me to reexamine what I previously knew about the man and his work.”—William McKinley Runyan, Contemporary Psychology

“This fascinating book combines an astute appraisal of the public career of one of America’s leading psychologists with a sensitive interpretation of his most private inner life. Beautifully written, psychoanalytically informed without ever being reductionist, Love’s Story Told is one of the best biographies I have read in years.”—David Herbert Donald, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

“This biography does what all good intellectual history should do—bring to life a whole milieu. It is even more absorbing as the story of a highly intelligent man who constructed a personal mythology to justify his own selfish needs.”—Phyllis Grosskurth, author of Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work

“Marshaling a mass of biographical information, Robinson’s narrative fuses the public and the intimate, the scientific and the Dionysian, the biographer’s quest for Henry A. Murray with Murray’s own self-searching quest for Herman Melville. A splendid biography of a remarkably bold and versatile explorer of the human psyche.”—Justin Kaplan, Pulitzer Prize–winning editor of Mark Twain: A Profile