PositiveThe Star Tribune\"...engagingly traces his family history from slavery onward, giving us a play-by-play of Wilson\'s artistic growth and the prickly restlessness that roiled his soul. A former theater critic at the Boston Globe, Hartigan writes in a breezy, chatty style; her book is chock full of vignettes and anecdotes. A Life is absorbing as she gives us his genetic, literary and spiritual provenance ... The biographer is expert at finding the right stories to keep us absorbed but A Life does not plumb Wilson\'s depth.\
