Word: glenway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas-week of 1940, he left behind a handful of brilliant novels and collections of short stories (This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby) and an unfillable gap in the ranks of Postwar I's "lost generation." Wrote Novelist Glenway Wescott, "he was a kind of king of our American youth...
APARTMENT IN ATHENS-Glenway Wescott-Harper...
...other novelist involved in the show was the 42-year-old, Wisconsin-born, Left Banker-that-was, Glenway Wescott (The Grandmothers, The Pilgrim Hawk). For the catalogue of the Remarque collection he wrote an eminently quotable introduction...
...crest, the lives of the young Americans who had transplanted themselves to Paris had three fixed points-the Dome, the Select, the Rotonde. To these world-famed cafés, at some time or other, came all American exiles: Ernest Hemingway, Elliot Paul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Coates...
...teaching at Lawrenceville School and the University of Chicago long after he became famous. Most traditional and cloistered of novelists, he suddenly turned a somersault, became the most adventurous of playwrights. He much prefers plays to novels because of their "absence of editorial comment." He admires Authors Ernest Hemingway, Glenway Wescott, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the late great Marcel Proust, James Joyce, can recite word for word whole pages of Joyce's Finnegans Wake...