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Robert Phelps

Born

in Elyria, Ohio, The United States

November 16, 1922

Died

January 01, 1989

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

Influences

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Robert Phelps (also known as Robert G. Phelps) was a journalist, novelist and letter-writer who flourished in the mid-twentieth century in new York City, his adopted home. A devoted francophile, Phelps venerated the writings of Cocteau, Colette and Marcel Jouhandeau and did much to promote the works of these authors in the US. Phelps co-founded Grove Press in 1949, but sold it a year later and devoted himself to writing. He is best known for "The Literary Life: A Scrapbook Almanac of the Anglo-American Literary Scene from 1900 to 1950"; "Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau"; and "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn From her Lifetime Writings".
NOTE: He is NOT the author of "Ramblings from the Barn", or the Mel ...more

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	The Literary Life: A Scrapbook Almanac of the Anglo-American Literary Scene from 1900-1950 by Robert Phelps, Peter Deane 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1970 — 2 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
	Heroes and Orators 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1958	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
	Growing Calendar: Guide on How to Plan and When to Plant Your Garden to Get Huge Harvest This Year 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 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
	Colette: Flowers and Fruit it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986 — 2 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
	Twentieth-Century Culture: The Breaking Up (The Cultures of Mankind, #4) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1965	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
	In the Hug of a Sun that has Stopped 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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 Body Broken: Controversy In The Church 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“I am not a human being; I am a human becoming.”
― Robert Phelps

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