Glenway Wescott
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 The cover of Glenway Wescott Personally by Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.) |
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| Born: | April 11, 1901 Kewaskum, Wisconsin |
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| Died: | February 22, 1987 Rosemont, New Jersey |
| Occupation: | Writer |
Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was a major American novelist during the 1920-1940 period and a figure in the American expatriot literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Wescott was a homosexual.
Wescott was born on a farm in Kewaskum, Wisconsin in 1901. He studied at the University of Chicago. Independently wealthy, he began his writing career as a poet, but is best known for his short stories and novels, notably The Grandmothers (1926). He lived in Germany (1921–2), and in France (c.1925–33), where he mixed with Gertrude Stein and the American expatriate community. He returned to America and settled near Hampton, New Jersey.
His novel, The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (1940), was praised by the critics. Apartment in Athens (1945), the story of a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, was a popular success. From then on he ceased to write fiction, although he published his essays and edited the works of others.
Wescott was the model for the character Robert Prentiss in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
[edit] External Link
- A Visit to Priapus, short story by Wescott
[edit] Further Reading
- Roscoe, Jerry (2002) Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
