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...smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American...
Edward Noyes Wescott, author of "David Harum" died before his book was published and consequently could not enjoy the material benefits of being the writer of the smash hit of the early 1900's. Members of another generation will be able to remember when several of the lines in the motion pictures were the sayings and by-words...
...Rotarian. Can't you. he said, make it 80%. No. said she regretfully. I can't.'' Of Ezra Pound her criticism is even more cavalier: "She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not. not." Glenway Wescott "at no time interested Gertrude Stein. He has a certain syrup but it does not pour." But she thinks F. Scott Fitzgerald "will be read when many of his well known contemporaries are forgotten...
...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...
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...