Malcolm Cowley, poet, critic, editor, cultural commentator, translator--in the exact professional sense, literary historian--is best known for painting in Exile's Return (1934, revised 1951) the accepted picture of the "lost generation" of writers that...

Malcolm Cowley is best known as a critic and literary historian whose sound judgment, understanding, and polished prose have earned him in a long lifetime of working "at the writer's trade," a place beside Van Wyck Brooks and Edmund Wilson as one of...

Writer and literary critic Malcolm Cowley, who was one of the post-World War I "Lost Generation" group of authors that included Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, died yesterday at age 90. Cowley died at New Milford Hospital shortly after suffering an apparent...

Malcolm Cowley, the literary historian whose influential and elegant essays chronicled more than six decades of American letters, died of a heart attack Tuesday in New Milford (Conn.) Hospital after being stricken at his home in Sherman, Conn. He was 90. Mr. Cowley...

ALFRED KAZIN: A BIOGRAPHY By Richard M. Cook Yale University Press, 452 pages, $35 With the death of Alfred Kazin in 1998 at the age of 83, the kind of high-end literary journalism that he’d devoted his life to in over a thousand book reviews,...

Manya Callahan, manager of the Barnes & Noble Downtown store, sees them all the time, young and old, looking for books by Lowell's most famous citizen."They're usually wearing backpacks and they kind of have a sense of adventure about them," she says. "They walk inside,...