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Glenway Wescott was born on 11 April, 1901 in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, US, is an American poet, novelist and essayist. Discover Glenway Wescott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Occupation Poet writer novelist
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 11 April, 1901
Birthday 11 April
Birthplace Kewaskum, Wisconsin, US
Date of death 22 February, 1987
Died Place Rosemont, New Jersey, US
Nationality United States

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1901

Glenway Wescott (April 11, 1901 – February 22, 1987) was an American poet, novelist and essayist.

Wescott was born on a farm in Kewaskum, Wisconsin in 1901.

1907

His younger brother, Lloyd Wescott, was born in Wisconsin in 1907.

He studied at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of a literary circle including Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Yvor Winters, and Janet Lewis, but left after contracting Spanish flu.

Wescott travelled to Santa Fe to recover from Spanish flu, where he wrote his first published poetry collection, titled The Bitterns.

1919

His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.

1920

A figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s, Wescott was openly gay.

1921

Wescott lived in Germany (1921–1922), and in France (c. 1925–1933), where he mixed with Gertrude Stein and other members of the American expatriate community.

Wescott was the model for the character Robert Prentiss in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

After meeting Prentiss, Hemingway's narrator, Jake Barnes, confesses, "I just thought perhaps I was going to throw up."

1926

Wescott and Wheeler returned to the United States and maintained an apartment in Manhattan with photographer George Platt Lynes, whom they had met in France in 1926.

1927

Although, he began his writing career as a poet, he is best known for his short stories and novels, notably The Grandmothers (1927), which received the Harper Novel prize, and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940).

1933

In the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), Gertrude Stein wrote about him, "There was also Glenway Wescott but Glenway Wescott at no time interested Gertrude Stein. He has a certain syrup but it does not pour."

1936

When his brother Lloyd moved to a dairy farm in Union Township, near Clinton in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1936, Wescott along with Wheeler and Lynes took over one of the farmhand houses and named it Stone-Blossom.

1940

His novel, The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (1940), was praised by the critics.

1943

Lynes ended his relationship with Wescott and Wheeler in 1943 to be with his studio assistant, Jonathan Tichenor.

1945

Apartment in Athens (1945), the story of a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, was a popular success.

From then on he ceased to write fiction, although he published essays and edited the works of others.

1955

Nevertheless, Wescott was at Lynes' bedside when he died of lung cancer in December 1955.

1959

In 1959, when his brother Lloyd acquired a farm near the village of Rosemont in Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Wescott moved into a two-story stone house on the property, dubbed Haymeadows.

1987

In her essay on The Pilgrim Hawk, Ingrid Norton writes, "After...Apartment in Athens, Wescott lived until 1987 without writing another novel: journals (published posthumously as Continual Lessons) and the occasional article, yes, but no more fiction. The Midwest-born author seems to slide into the golden handcuffs of expatriate decadence: supported by the heiress his brother married [ Barbara Harrison Wescott], surrounded by literate friends, given to social drinking and letter-writing."

In 1987, Wescott died of a stroke at his home in Rosemont and was buried in the small farmer's graveyard hidden behind a rock wall and trees at Haymeadows.

Monroe Wheeler was buried alongside him following his death a year later.