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GLENWAY WESCOTT PERSONALLY: A Biography University of Wisconsin Press 1st edition
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GLENWAY WESCOTT PERSONALLY: A Biography
University of Wisconsin Press
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.
328 pages, 28 b/w photos
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 23, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780299177348 |
| Publishers | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 153 × 25 mm · 496 g |
| Language | English |
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