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Malcolm Cowley

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Born: August 23 1898

Died: 2626 03 19891989

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 sundered tradition and fostered a new era in American literature. He was the one who rescued writers such as William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald from possible early oblivion and who discovered John Cheever and goaded him to write. Later Cowley championed such uncommon writers as Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey

His extraordinarily creative and prolific writing career spanned nearly 70 years, and he continued to produce essays, reviews and books well into his 80's.

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Malcolm Cowley

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Books from Malcolm Cowley

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

Winesburg, Ohio

The Portable Walt Whitman

Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation

The View From 80

The Portable Faulkner

Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518-1865 (Classic History)

The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s

...And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978

Unshaken Friend: A Profile of Maxwell Perkins

The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987

Blue Juniata: Collected Poems

The Portable Malcolm Cowley

On Board the Morning Star

Yesterday's Burdens

A Many-Windowed House: Collected Essays on American Writers and American Writing

The Works of Walt Whitman: The Deathbed Edition in Two Volumes: The Collected Prose, Volume II (The Works of Walt Whitman, Volume II)

The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981

The Lesson of the Masters