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 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