Glenway Wescott
Biography
Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was a major American novelist during the 1920-1940 period and a figure in the American expatriot literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Wescott was a homosexual. Wescott was born on a farm in Kewaskum, Wisconsin in 1901. He briefly studied at the University of Chicago on a scholarship, but dropped out after a year and half with Spanish Flu. He began his writing career as a poet, but is best known for his short stories and novels, notably The Grandmothers (1926).
He lived in Germany (1921�1922), and in France (c.1925�1933), where he mixed with Gertrude Stein and the American expatriate community.