With the snow gone, we finally made it to Edmund Wilson’s grave, seven minutes away in Wellfleet. For 50 years, he was a literary giant, mostly working as a prolific critic, while authoring several books. He went to Princeton with Fitzgerald, lost his virginity to Edna St. Vincent Millay, followed her to Truro, where he proposed. She rejected him, and he never got over it. He became a mainstay during summers out here, where he was friends with John and Katy Dos Passos, Edwin O’Connor, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. He was a high-functioning alcoholic who cheated on each of his four wives. He was close with Nabokov, until they fell out. Wilson even proposed to Anaïs Nin, but she found him insulting and turned him down. He was an early proponent of Hemingway and helped get his work recognized in the United States, but 20 years later, he called him out for being a caricature of himself. Edmund “Bunny” Wilson is another fascinating literary ghost here on the Outer Cape.