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Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
by
Jerry Rosco
As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901–1987) left behind several novels, including The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk, noted for their remarkable lyricism. As a literary figure, Wescott also became a symbol of his times. Born on a Wisconsin farm in 1901, he associated as a young writer with Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald in 1920s Paris and subsequently was a central ...more
Hardcover, 328 pages
Published
March 26th 2002
by University of Wisconsin Press
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I was introduced to Glenway Wescott in Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost Overlooked Under-read Unavailable Stolen Extinct or Otherwise Out of Commission, whose long title barely conceals the most fantastic collection of personal literary essays I've ever read.
Before reading the essay on The Pilgrim Hawk, I had never heard Wescott's name before or, I'm sure, seen it in print, but it motivated me to seek out and find my school's copy of it and I devoured it in one night, w...more
Before reading the essay on The Pilgrim Hawk, I had never heard Wescott's name before or, I'm sure, seen it in print, but it motivated me to seek out and find my school's copy of it and I devoured it in one night, w...more
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Jerry Rosco is a New Yorker but splits his time between there and Montreal. He's written for the Village Voice and Christopher Street
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