Word: wescott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publishers Harper & Bros, are banking on the book's attracting a wider attention than Rochester's. They paid Author Horgan $7,500 and royalties for his book, hope it will sell as many copies as previous Harper Prize Novels (Anne Parrish's The Perennial Bachelor, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, et al.). Judicious readers will rate The Fault of Angels as a moderately entertaining, competent picture of a minor artistic phenomenon...
...shake off the dust of Wisconsin is to write a book about saints. Glenway Wescott, self-exiled in France, has been dipping his Wisconsin-haunted nose in hagiography. This little (215 pp.) anthology of saints' lives, at least one for every day in the year, is "not a learned work" nor a book for the devout, but "a simple picture of a crowd . . . blessed degenerates, mere sportsmen of asceticism, man-sized infants, a demigod or two, politicians, fearful beauties, awful fools, and, of course, those for whom there simply would have had to be some such word...
Some of the more than 400 saints: Simeon Stylites, who lived 38 years on a pillar, at first 9 ft., at last 60 ft. high. Sebastian, who was shot full of arrows but (according to Author Wescott's account) recovered and was beaten to death. Gothard, absent-minded Alpine hermit, hung his coat on a sunbeam; the obliging beam waited till the coat was removed, then hurried after the setting sun. When Agnes of Monte Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise...
...Author. Though he is much younger (32) and better-looking than Sinclair Lewis (48), Glenway Wescott is almost as birthplace-ridden. In the beerless era, his public farewells to his native State helped keep the U. S. reading public Wisconsin-conscious. He has defined the Middle West as: "A place which has no fixed boundaries, no particular history; inhabited by no one race; always exhausted by its rich output of food, men, and manufactured articles: loyal to none of its many creeds, prohibitions, fads, hypocrisies; now letting itself be governed, now ungovernable." Sprig of an old U. S. family with...
After non-graduation from the University of Chicago and literary odd jobs in Chicago and Manhattan, Wescott went abroad to live and has been there off & on ever since, mostly in Villefranche or Paris. He is unmarried, slender, boyish-looking, with a long, smooth face, pointed, lobeless ears. He is fond of comic strips. Other books: The Apple of the Eye, Natives of the Rock, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, Fear & Trembling (TIME...