JOURNEY TO GREATNESS : BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE GERSHWIN COMPOSER. by David Ewen and Signed and Dated by Ewen on front endpaper. 1956, second printing, Henry Holt Pub. b&w photos. Most thourough biography by world renowned music author and editor. active with the publ. firm of Allen, Towne, and Heath (1946?9). In 1965 he joined the faculty of the Univ. of Miami, which awarded him an honorary D.Mus. in 1974. In 1985 he received the ASCAP Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music. Ewen publ. more than 80 books during a career of some 50 years