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Glenway Wescott

Born

in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, The United States

April 11, 1901

Died

February 22, 1987

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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Average rating: 3.61 · 2,387 ratings · 335 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Pilgrim Hawk 3.59 avg rating — 1,599 ratings — published 1940 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott, David Leavitt (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 1945	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait by Glenway Wescott, Sargent Bush Jr. (Introduction) 3.68 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1927 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories by Glenway Wescott, Wendy Moffat (Foreword), Jerry Rosco (Editor) 3.38 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good-Bye Wisconsin 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1928 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pilgrim Hawk (excerpt) (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 5) by Glenway Wescott, Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apple of the Eye 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1924 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, 1956–1984 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Calendar of Saints for Unbelievers 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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

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“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

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

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