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Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter. [1] He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
Nathanael West was an American writer best known for satiric novels of the 1930s. Of middle-class Jewish immigrant parentage, he attended high school in New York City and graduated from Brown University in 1924. During a 15-month stay in Paris, he completed his first novel, The Dream Life of Balso
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NATHANAEL WEST, who died in 1940 at the age of thirty-six, published four curious, highly original novels during the thirties, of which the second, Miss Lonelyhearts, and the fourth, The Day of ...
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Jan 27, 2016 · A review of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, a novel that scours and cauterizes the American spirit in the Depression era. The reviewer praises West's blackly comic language, his merciless critique of religion, art, and communication, and his nihilist character Shrike.
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Nathanael West (October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was the pen name of U.S. author, screenwriter, and satirist Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein. West's novels, in particular Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, were influenced by the Depression. In the wake of the stock market crash in October 1929, West's satirical novels with their ...
May 17, 2018 · Nathanael West (1903-1940) was a Depression-decade novelist who wrote four dark and satirical novels, including Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust. He died in a car accident shortly after marrying Eileen McKenney, the heroine of My Sister Eileen.
in New York City, The United States. October 17, 1903. Died. December 22, 1940. Genre. Fiction, Novellas. edit data. Born Nathanael von Wallenstein Weinstein to prosperous Jewish parents, from the first West set about creating his own legend, and anglicising his name was part of that process. At Brown University in Rhode Island, he befriended ...
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