Alfred C. Kinsey Sex the Measure of All Things : A Biography

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

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Publisher's Synopsis

This biography describes Alfred Kinsey's strict Methodist upbringing, his love of minute observation which he applied first to academic entomology and then to human sexuality, and the obsessive work ethic that contributed to his death.

About the Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Chatto was founded in 1855 by a bookseller-publisher called John Camden Hotten. On Hotten's death, Andrew Chatto, who had worked there since he was fifteen, acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1917, The Hogarth Press was founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and in 1946 this too came under Chatto's management. The firm published many significant writers and classics - R.L. Stevenson, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Rosamond Lehmann, Henry Green, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s.

Book information

ISBN:	9781856196048
Publisher:	Chatto & Windus
Imprint:	Chatto & Windus
Pub date:	27 Aug 1998
DEWEY:	306.7092
DEWEY edition:	21
Number of pages:	514
Weight:	899g
Height:	242mm
Width:	167mm