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- ISBN 9780299294243
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2013
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Charm, wit, compassion, wisdom, literature, nature, sex, humor, politics, sorrow, love: these themes fill the late journal pages of enigmatic American writer Glenway Wescott. From humble beginnings on a poor Wisconsin farm, Wescott went on to study at the University of Chicago, narrowly survive the Spanish flu pandemic, and eventually emerge as an influential poet and novelist. A major figure in the American literary expatriate community in Paris during the 1920s and a prominent American novelist in the years leading up to World War II, he spent a decade living abroad before relocating permanently to New York and New Jersey with his partner, Museum of Modern Art publications director and curator Monroe Wheeler. Together they mixed with such intellectual and creative greats as Jean Cocteau, Colette, George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Isherwood, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Truman Capote, Joseph Campbell, and scores of other luminaries. During the second half of his life, Wescott wrote nonfiction essays and worked for the Academy Institute of Arts and Letters, all the while keeping journals in which he recorded the experiences that fostered his love of life, literature, the arts, and humanity. A Heaven of Words looks back on Wescott's entire fascinating life and reveals the riveting narrative of his last decades.
Winner, Gay Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Awards
Winner, Gay Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Awards
Glenway Wescott (1901–1987) began his writing career as a poet but is best known for his short stories and novels, notably The Grandmothers (1927), The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (1940), and Apartment in Athens (1945). Jerry Rosco is author of Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and coeditor of Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937–1955. He lives in New York City.
