TY - BOOK ID - 77881475 TI - Glenway Wescott personally PY - 2002 SN - 128278823X 9786612788239 0299177335 9780299177331 9781282788237 0299177343 9780299177348 0299177300 9780299177300 6612788232 PB - Madison University of Wisconsin Press DB - UniCat KW - Gay men KW - Americans KW - Authors, American KW - History KW - Wescott, Glenway, KW - Wisconsin KW - Paris (France) KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Intellectual life KW - Authors [American ] KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - United States KW - Wescott, Glenway, - 1901 KW - -Americans - France - Paris - History - 20th century. KW - Wisconsin - Biography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77881475 AB - 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 figure in New York's artistic and gay communities. Though he couldn't finish a novel after the age of forty-five, he was just as famous as an arts impresario, as a diarist, and for the company he kept: W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Marianne Moore, Somerset Maugham, E. M. Forster, Joseph Campbell, and scores of other luminaries. In Glenway Wescott Personally, Jerry Rosco chronicles Wescott's long and colorful life, his early fame and later struggles to write, the uniquely privileged and sometimes tortured world of artistic creation. Rosco sensitively and insightfully reveals Wescott's private life, his long relationship with Museum of Modern Art curator Monroe Wheeler, his work with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey that led to breakthrough findings on homosexuality, and his kinship with such influential artists as Jean Cocteau, George Platt-Lynes, and Paul Cadmus. ER -