Glenway Wescott personally : a biography /

Rosco, Jerry,

Glenway Wescott personally : a biography / Jerry Rosco. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002. - 1 online resource (xvii, 306 pages) : illustrations - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-295) and index.

Wisconsin Farm Boy to Midwest Prodigy -- The Next Step: New York and Europe -- The Expatriate Twenties -- Paris and a New Family -- Lost in America: The Thirties -- The Little Masterpiece and Willie Maugham -- The Bestseller -- Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research -- Inside the Circle: Farewell to George -- Beyond Fiction: The Valley Submerged -- The Great Divide and Images of Truth -- "Quail and Strawberries" -- Golden Leaves and the Birthday Book -- Epilogue: Other Voices and Continual Lessons.

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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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Stonewall Honor, 2003

9780299177331 (electronic bk.) 0299177335 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) 9786612788239 6612788232

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Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987.
Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987
Wescott, Glenway.


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Americans--History--France--Paris--20th century.
Gay men--United States--Biography.
Écrivains américains--20e siècle--Biographies.
Homosexuels masculins--États-Unis--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Americans.
Authors, American.
Gay men.
Intellectual life.


New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Wisconsin--Biography.
Paris (France)--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
Wisconsin--Biographies.
France--Paris.
New York (State)--New York.
United States.
Wisconsin.


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