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NATHANAEL Western novelist, screenwriter, playwright, committed outdoorsman was one of the most gifted and original freelance writers of his generation, a comic musician whose insight in to the brutalities of modern life proven prophetic. He's famous for two masterpieces, Neglect Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939). Seventy years later, The Day of the Locust remains the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood. 

<DIV><DIV>EILEEN MCKENNEY unintentional muse, literary heroine was the enthusiasm for her sister Ruth s funny reviews, My Sister Eileen, which resulted in level, film, and television adaptations, including Leonard Bernstein s 1953 musical Wonderful Town.  She grew up in Cleveland and changed to Manhattan at 21 searching for romance and excitement. She and her sister resided in a cellar apartment in the Village with a street-level screen into which men frequently peered. <DIV> <DIV><DIV>Couple were intimate with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katharine White, S.J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and lots of the literary, theatrical, and movie notables of these period.  With Lonelyhearts, biographer Marion Meade, whose Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin attained accolades from the Washington Post Reserve World ("Wonderful") to the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Chronicle ("Like looking at a photo recording while hearing a witty insider reminisce about the images"), restores West and McKenney with their rightful places in the rich cultural tapestry of interwar America.

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