Glenway Wescott Personally

Glenway Wescott Personally
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-13 : 9780299177348
ISBN-10 : 0299177343
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Book Synopsis Glenway Wescott Personally by : Jerry Rosco

Download or read book Glenway Wescott Personally written by Jerry Rosco and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901–1987) left behind several novels, including The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk, noted for their remarkable lyricism. As a literary figure, Wescott also became a symbol of his times. Born on a Wisconsin farm in 1901, he associated as a young writer with Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald in 1920s Paris and subsequently was a central figure in New York’s artistic and gay communities. Though he couldn’t finish a novel after the age of forty-five, he was just as famous as an arts impresario, as a diarist, and for the company he kept: W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Marianne Moore, Somerset Maugham, E. M. Forster, Joseph Campbell, and scores of other luminaries. In Glenway Wescott Personally, Jerry Rosco chronicles Wescott’s long and colorful life, his early fame and later struggles to write, the uniquely privileged and sometimes tortured world of artistic creation. Rosco sensitively and insightfully reveals Wescott’s private life, his long relationship with Museum of Modern Art curator Monroe Wheeler, his work with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey that led to breakthrough findings on homosexuality, and his kinship with such influential artists as Jean Cocteau, George Platt-Lynes, and Paul Cadmus.


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