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Malcolm Cowley

Born

in Pittsburgh, The United States

August 24, 1898

Died

March 27, 1989

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Malcolm Cowley was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist. Cowley is also recognized as one of the major literary historians of the twentieth century, and his Exile's Return, is one of the most definitive and widely read chronicles of the 1920s.

Cowley was one of the dozens of creative literary and artistic figures who migrated during the 1920s to Paris and congregated in Montparnasse. He lived in France for three years, where he worked with notables such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings and others. He is usually regarded as representative of America's Lost Generation.

As a consulting editor for Viking Press, Cowley notably championed the work and advanced the careers of the post-World War I writers who su ...more

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	Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s 3.96 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1951 — 59 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
	Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews : First Series by Malcolm Cowley (Editor), François Mauriac (Contributor), E.M. Forster (Contributor) 4.26 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1959 — 20 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 Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation 4.04 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1973 — 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
	The View From 80 3.77 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1980 — 11 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 Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memories, 1944-1962 by Malcolm Cowley, William Faulkner 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1967 — 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 Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1980 — 7 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
	...And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1978 — 9 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
	Blue Juniata: Collected Poems 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1985 — 18 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
	Unshaken Friend: A Profile of Maxwell Perkins 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1985 — 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
	The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 by Malcolm Cowley, Robert Cowley (Foreword), Hans Bak (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 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

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“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.”
― Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

tags: 1920s, debauchery, emptiness, gambling, jazz, lost-generation, orchestra, tiredness

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“...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.”
― Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

tags: paris

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“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more.”
― Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

tags: coffee, conversation, future-plans, lost-generation, modest, new-york, poetry, rebellion, writers

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