Glenway Wescott
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