"After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney's death in 1945. During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe and the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, and severe depression....

"Cumulative index of Dictionary of literary biography, volumes 1-67; Dictionary of literary biography yearbook, 1980-1986; Dictionary of literary biography documentary series, volumes 1-4"--Page 341-397.