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Glenway Wescott

AmericanApril 11, 1901 – February 22, 1987Modernist Fiction

Glenway Wescott was a Wisconsin-born expatriate novelist whose The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk are elegant, subtle masterworks of American Modernism. His later life as a literary socialite overshadowed his small but distinguished body of fiction.

Works

  • The Apple of the EyeNovel of youth and romance in rural Wisconsin dealing with family tradition and desire→
  • The GrandmothersNovel exploring family history through recollections of Wisconsin grandmothers and ancestors→
  • Good-bye WisconsinCollection of stories and sketches celebrating the people and towns of rural Wisconsin→
  • The Pilgrim HawkNovella depicting a chance encounter that disrupts an aging marriage in high society→
  • Apartment in AthensNovel set in occupied Athens during World War II exploring moral choices and survival→

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