Description
McAlmon and the Lost Generation: A Self Portrait
Format: Hardcover
- 1962
- First Edition
- University of Nebraska Press
Condition:
- some wear on dust jacket
- protected in brodart archival covering
Author: Robert E. Knoll
Summary:
McAlmon and the Lost Generation: A Self-Portrait (1962) is a collection of his autobiographical writings.
Robert McAlmon, in full Robert Menzies McAlmon, (born March 9, 1896, Clifton, Kan., U.S.—died Feb. 2, 1956, Desert Hot Springs, Calif.), American author and publisher and an exemplar of the literary expatriate in Paris during the 1920s. Many of his short stories, however, are based on his own youthful experiences living in small South Dakota towns.
He published works by Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway.McAlmon typed and edited the handwritten manuscript of Ulysseys by James Joyce with whom he had a friendship.
McAlmon and the Lost Generation: A Self-Portrait captures the vivid self-portrait of writer and publisher Robert McAlmon, who lived at the center of the Paris expatriate literary world of the 1920s. Edited and annotated by Robert E. Knoll, this 1962 first edition offers rare firsthand glimpses of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound, among others who shaped modern literature.
