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From his name to his college transcript to his literary style, Nathanael West was self-invented. Given birth to Nathan Weinstein, the writer of the classics Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939) was an uncompromising designer enthusiastic about writing the perfect novel. He pursued his interest from New York to California, flirting dangerously with the bleak, faux-glamour of Hollywood as the united states endured through the grim realities of the Great Depression. At the guts of a circle of vigorous young literary authors that included Malcolm Cowley, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, S. J. Perelman, and Dashiell Hammett, West rose to be one of the very most original literary abilities of the 20th hundred years - an accomplished yet regrettably underappreciated get better at of the short lyric novel. West was finally needs to enjoy financial steadiness as a Hollywood screenwriter when he died in the California desert. A notoriously bad driver, he was race back from a vacation in Mexico along with his young bride of eight weeks when he crashed at full quickness into another car. He was deceased at the age of 37. For this reserve, the first biography on West by themselves in over 40 years, Joe Woodward combed the archives on the Huntington Collection and the John Hay Collection at Brown School. At both he had access to personal letters, images, unpublished manuscripts and corrected typescripts as well as seldom-heard taped interviews with S. J. Perelman, Dalton Trumbo, Matthew Josephson, as well as others.
