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NATHANAEL WEST-novelist, screenwriter, playwright, devoted outdoorsman-was one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss 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. EILEEN MCKENNEY-accidental muse, literary heroine-was the inspiration for her sister Ruth's humorous stories, My Sister Eileen, which led to stage, film, and television adaptations, including Leonard Bernstein's 1953 musical Wonderful Town. She grew up in Cleveland and moved to Manhattan at 21 in search of romance and adventure. She and her sister lived in a basement apartment in the Village with a street-level window into which men frequently peered. Husband and wife were intimate with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katharine White, S.J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and many of the literary, theatrical, and movie notables of their era. With Lonelyhearts, biographer Marion Meade, whose Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin earned accolades from the Washington Post Book World

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Author

McKenney, Eileen;West, Nathanael;Meade, Marion

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780151011490

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.36 / 5 (78 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14