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Lewis Galantière (October 10, 1895 – February 20, 1977) was a noted American translator, man of letters, and sometime government official. He is particularly remembered for his friendships with the " Lost Generation " American expatriate writers in Paris.
Feb 22, 1977 · Lewis Galantiere, writer, critic and authority on modern French literature, died Sunday evening at Presbyterian Hospital after a brief illness. He was 81 years old. A past president of the P. E. N ...
Lewis Galantière (1894-1977) was a distinguished founding member of the association. His translations from French drama, fiction, poetry, and scholarship enriched cultural life during the middle decades of the 20th century and are still being read.
Lewis Galantière guided Hemingway through his first years in Paris, when the author was unknown and desperate for recognition. He helped James Joyce and Sylvia Beach launch Ulysses; started John Houseman in his theatrical career, and collaborated with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the writing of Wind, Sand and Stars and Flight to Arras.
Jan 12, 2023 · Lewis Galantière guided Hemingway through his first years in Paris, when the author was unknown and desperate for recognition. He helped James Joyce and Sylvia Beach launch Ulysses; started John Houseman in his theatrical career; and collaborated with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the writing of Wind, Sand and Stars and Flight to Arras.
In turn, Hemingway taught Lewis to box, and in typical Hemingway fashion he hit Lewis with a “sucker punch that caught him squarely on the face, breaking his glasses” (4). In December 1923, Burton Rascoe, Lewis’s friend, wrote in a New York Times Book Review piece that he thought of “Lewis as the most ‘well thought of’ among the ...
Oct 21, 2020 · Galantiere worked for the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris from 1920 to 1927, and came to know many French writers and American expatriates. He also worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Office of War Information, and Radio Free Europe.
