For the actor, see Nathan West. For the character, see Nathan West (General Hospital).
"Nathaniel West" redirects here. For the captain, see Nathaniel West (captain).
Nathanael West
Born
Nathan Weinstein (1903-10-17)October 17, 1903 New York, New York, U.S.
Died
December 22, 1940(1940-12-22) (aged 37) El Centro, California, U.S.
Resting place
Mount Zion Cemetery, Queens, New York
Occupation
Novelist, screenwriter
Alma mater
Brown University
Notable works
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
The Day of the Locust (1939)
Spouse
Eileen McKenney
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter.[1] He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
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for a Night, 1938 A Man to Remember, 1938 Five Came Back, 1939 (with NathanaelWest and J. Cody) Curtain Call, 1940 A Bill of Divorcement, 1940 Kitty Foyle...
Hollywood novels; The Oxford Companion to English Literature deems NathanaelWest's The Day of the Locust a standard example of the Hollywood novel. The...
directed by John Farrow, written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and NathanaelWest, and starring Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed...
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influences of the expressionist novella Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), by NathanaelWest, in which an unhappy newspaper reporter pseudonymously writes the "Miss...
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considered Burroughs a satirist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and NathanaelWest and that his social criticism required vulgar language. William Duvall...
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