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Glenway Wescott

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born

April 11, 1901 in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, The United States

died

February 22, 1987

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Glenway Wescott grew up in Wisconsin and briefly attended the University of Chicago where he met in 1919 his longtime partner Monroe Wheeler.

In 1925 he and Wheeler moved to France, where they mingled with Gertrude Stein and other American expatriates, notably Ernest Hemingway, who created an unflattering portrait of Wescott in the character of Robert Prentiss in The Sun Also Rises.

Eventually, Wescott and Wheeler returned to America and lived in New York City, and later on a large farm in Rosemont, New Jersey owned by his brother, the philanthropist Lloyd Wescott, along with other family members.

Wescott's early fiction, the novels The Apple of the Eye (1924) and the Harper Prize winning The Grandmothers (1927) and the story collection Good...more

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Books by Glenway Wescott

Average rating: 3.65 · 282 ratings · 60 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott, Michael Cunningham (Introduction) 3.64 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott, David Leavitt (Introduction) 3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1945 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Grandmothers: A Family Portrait 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1927 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Good-Bye, Wisconsin 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1928 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Calendar of Saints for Unbelievers 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	The Apple of the Eye 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1924 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Apartamento en Atenas 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1945	My rating:
	Continual Lessons 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Images Of Truth;Remembrances And Criticism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Six Great Modern Short Novels by James Joyce, Herman Melville, Katherine Ann Porter 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1954	My rating:

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Quotes by Glenway Wescott

“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

tags: aging , life , luck , youth

8 people liked it

“But let us laugh carelessly like other men.
Let us be timid even among fools.
Let us knot silence around our throats.
For they would surely kill us.”
― Glenway Wescott

tags: homosexuality , love , poetry , secrecy

7 people liked it

“People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.”
― Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

tags: humanity , humor , intention , wisdom

6 people liked it

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