Glenway Wescott

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Glenway Wescott


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

Died
February 22, 1987

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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
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Average rating: 3.61 · 2,387 ratings · 335 reviews · 37 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Pilgrim Hawk

3.59 avg rating — 1,599 ratings — published 1940 — 3 editions
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Apartment in Athens

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The Grandmothers: A Family ...

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A Visit to Priapus and Othe...

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Good-Bye Wisconsin

3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1928 — 12 editions
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Continual Lessons: The Jour...

3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
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The Apple of the Eye

3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1924 — 4 editions
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A Heaven of Words: Last Jou...

4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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A Calendar of Saints for Un...

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions
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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

“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

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

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