| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 306 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-295) and index. |
| Contents |
Wisconsin Farm Boy to Midwest Prodigy -- Next Step: New York and Europe -- Expatriate Twenties -- Paris and a New Family -- Lost in America: The Thirties -- Little Masterpiece and Willie Maugham -- Bestseller -- Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research -- Inside the Circle: Farewell to George -- Beyond Fiction: The Valley Submerged -- Great Divide and Images of Truth -- "Quail and Strawberries" -- Golden Leaves and the Birthday Book -- Epilogue: Other Voices and Continual Lessons. |
| Summary |
As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901 & ndash;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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987.
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Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987. |
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Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987. |
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Wescott, Glenway. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
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20th century |
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Biographies.
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Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
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Americans. |
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France -- Paris. |
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History. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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National Book Committee. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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Gay men. |
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United States. |
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Wisconsin -- Biography.
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Wisconsin. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Gay men. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rosco, Jerry. Glenway Wescott personally. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2002 9780299177348 (DLC) 2001005410 (OCoLC)47973261 |
| ISBN |
9780299177331 electronic book |
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0299177335 electronic book |
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128278823X |
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9781282788237 |
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0299177343 |
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9780299177348 |
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0299177300 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299177300 |
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