(1901-04-11)April 11, 1901 Kewaskum, Wisconsin, US
Died
February 22, 1987(1987-02-22) (aged 85) Rosemont, New Jersey, US
Occupation
Poet
writer
novelist
Education
University of Chicago
Partner
Monroe Wheeler
Relatives
Lloyd Wescott (brother)
Glenway Wescott (April 11, 1901 – February 22, 1987) was an American poet, novelist and essayist. A figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s, Wescott was openly gay.[1] His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.
^Eric Haralson, Henry James and Queer Modernity, Cambridge University Press, 2003, page 175
GlenwayWescott (April 11, 1901 – February 22, 1987) was an American poet, novelist and essayist. A figure of the American expatriate literary community...
Massachusetts Wescott Infant School, infant school in Wokingham, Berkshire, England Blake Wescott, American musician GlenwayWescott, American novelist...
and poet GlenwayWescott lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death in 1987. Wheeler was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1899. He met GlenwayWescott, who was...
mumps, a disease that made him sterile; as for the bride, her friend GlenwayWescott, the novelist, admiringly described her in his unpublished diaries...
and donor of land that became Wescott Preserve in Hunterdon County. Novelist GlenwayWescott was his brother. Wescott was born in 1907 on a dairy farm...
circle of friends that he would meet there including Gertrude Stein, GlenwayWescott, Monroe Wheeler. He attended Yale University in 1926, but dropped out...
well as excerpts from works by Hamlin Garland, Sinclair Lewis, and GlenwayWescott, which thematically parallel the incidents depicted. The text is accompanied...
The Grandmothers is a 1927 novel by GlenwayWescott which received the Harper Novel Prize. Based upon Wescott's own life and family, it is told through...
1917–18, where he was a member of a literary circle that included GlenwayWescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and his future wife Janet Lewis. In the winter...
Madox Ford William Faulkner Thomas Wolfe Henri Barbusse Djuna Barnes GlenwayWescott Edna St. Vincent Millay Edmund Wilson Henry Miller Malcolm Cowley Louis-Ferdinand...
issued in 1924. Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W. R. Burnett and GlenwayWescott, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Roy Campbell, Susan Berman, Herbert Gold...
was the literary agent, editor, and friend of Katherine Anne Porter. GlenwayWescott and Monroe Wheeler Collection of Katherine Anne Porter. Yale Collection...
including Paul Cadmus, George Platt Lynes, Julien Green, Fritz Peters, and GlenwayWescott. At Kinsey's specific request he also kept highly detailed journals...
Rosenbach Marianne Moore papers at the University of Maryland Libraries GlenwayWescott and Monroe Wheeler Collection of Marianne Moore at Beinecke Rare Book...
'Best-Dressed' Husbands", The New York Times, 12 January 1970 Jerry Rosco, GlenwayWescott, Personally (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002) Frank J. Prial, "Baroness...
Calder, A Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and two new works by GlenwayWescott, Wheeler's longtime companion. In 1934, the press relocated to New...
and writers. Some of those who participated were Tennessee Williams, GlenwayWescott, Monroe Wheeler, Donald Windham, Todd Bolender, Bernard Perlin, Chuck...
divorce, with Huntington preferring the company of her female friends. GlenwayWescott once called her "a grand old lesbian". Huntington family Huntington's...
circle of creative friends from many fields of the arts. These included GlenwayWescott, George Platt Lynes, Jared French, Bernard Perlin, Pavel Tchelitchev...
offensive, and no award was given that year. Though Apartment in Athens by GlenwayWescott, The Wayfarers by Dan Wickenden, and Black Boy by Richard Wright were...
The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares Jerry Roscoe GlenwayWescott Personally Literature Noel Alumit Letters to Montgomery Clift Winner...
Wolfe, and John Dos Passos, and Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld, GlenwayWescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop, and Edmund Wilson. New York: New...
modern poetry in the University of Chicago curriculum. Members included GlenwayWescott, George Dillon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Yvor Winters, Llewellyn Jones...
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