Malcolm Cowley, Critic, Dies FINAL Edition

[Malcolm Cowley], a former editor at The New Republic magazine, belonged to the group of American expatriates in Paris, including [Ernest Hemingway], [F. Scott Fitzgerald] and Ezra Pound, that Gertrude Stein dubbed the "Lost Generation" in the 1920s. "He did that at a time when Faulkn...

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Published inThe Washington post
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LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, D.C WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post 29.03.1989
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Summary:[Malcolm Cowley], a former editor at The New Republic magazine, belonged to the group of American expatriates in Paris, including [Ernest Hemingway], [F. Scott Fitzgerald] and Ezra Pound, that Gertrude Stein dubbed the "Lost Generation" in the 1920s. "He did that at a time when Faulkner's books were still not selling," said Cleanth Brooks, professor emeritus of rhetoric at Yale University and an eminent Faulkner scholar. "I date Cowley's `Portable Faulkner' and Robert Penn Warren's review on `The Portable Faulkner' as the things that really brought Faulkner into prominence. After that very shortly came the Nobel Prize" for Faulkner. In 1956, Cowley published his 18-year correspondence with Faulkner. In 1967, he produced a collection of his essays and reviews from The New Republic and other periodicals. He published a "A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation," in 1973.
ISSN:0190-8286