With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
1898 – 1989
- Biography/Description of Work
Cowley was a member of the so-called Lost Generation, an expatriate writer living in Paris in the 1920s, chronicling his experiences with Hemingway, Dos Passos, Stein, Pound and other intellectual expats. “Blue Janiata” published in 1929 is a collection of poems reflecting this time, and 1934’s “Exiles Return” a portrait of the literary milieu. In 1944, Cowley became an editor at Viking Press where he worked on the Portable Library series. He championed the work of writers he thought deserved recognition, highlighting the work of modernists Hemingway (1944) and Faulkner (1946), and later pushing for publication of the 1957 beat novel “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac. Cowley moved to Sherman in 1936 near artistic neighbors such as Peter Blume, converting a barn to a home.
- Sources view
- Rachel Carley, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Cowley, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcowleyM.htm, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/malcolm-cowley, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3137/the-art-of-fiction-no-70-malcolm-cowley, http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0917/091702.html, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/document/exiles/home.html, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/141296/Malcolm-Cowley, http://www.newrepublic.com/authors/malcolm-cowley, http://books.google.com/books?id=-7iejOUjdHkC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=malcolm+cowley+sherman+ct&source=bl&ots=dUC3wR8wLT&sig=56YiJEwc80RFZTrrKUUX5oOgmqw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hoIPU-fLAqu30AHG8YCwBg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=malcolm%20cowley%20sherman%20ct&f=false, http://mms.newberry.org/html/Cowley.html, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pacblack/interests/cowley.html Malcolm Cowley Article - New York Times - 1929-9-8, Malcolm Cowley Article - New York Times - 1951-7-8, Malcolm Cowley Article - New York Times - 1977-8
- Associated Resource(s)
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