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Nathanael West | | Birth Date: |
October 17, 1903 | | Death Date: |
December 22, 1940 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Place of Death: |
El Centro, California, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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 Biography of Nathanael West
1,137 words, approx. 4 pages
 The writer who was to become known as Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in New York City; he was the first son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. His individuality early exhibited itself in his indifference toward school; his interest in the arts,... summary from source:
 Biography of Nathanael West
532 words, approx. 2 pages
The work of the American novelist Nathanael West (1903-1940) is strikingly original. It is characterized by its use of mythic themes in contemporary settings, terrifying symbolism, profound pessimism, and grisly humor. Nathanael West was born Nathan... summary from source:
Biography of Nathanael West
6,335 words, approx. 21 pages
 All around him he saw hypocrisy, lack of communication, the failure of love to heal. He saw the garish, bizarre, erotic, and grotesque replacing the standard criteria for defining a work of art. The result, he believed, is chaos, a natural concomitant...
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 Nathanael West Information
1,541 words, approx. 5 pages
Nathanael West (October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was the pen name of US author, screenwriter and satirist Nathan Wallenstein...
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 The Washington Times Inventing Nathanael West.(Books)
08/31/1997: 1,092 words, approx. 4 pages Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in 1903 on 81st Street in Upper Manhattan. By the time of his death in 1940 - he ran a stop sign just outside of El Centro, Calif., and collided with another car - he had alternately named... summary from source:
Washington Jewish Week MAX APPLE on NATHANAEL WEST
10/01/2004: 553 words, approx. 2 pages Nathanael West wrote four short novels and two of them were, like so much of his life and career, extended jokes. He attended Brown University because the admissions office thought he was another applicant, a Nathanael Weinstein who was a far better student. Later,... summary from source:
 The New York Observer The Company He Kept: Novelist Flirts With Espionage
5/15/2005: 973 words, approx. 3 pagesMy Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973, by Harry Mathews. Dalkey Archive Press, 203 pages, $13.95.A few weeks ago, the arts section of The New York Times turned its solemn eye on literary fiction. On Monday, the fine novelist and short-story writer Steve Stern... summary from source:
The New York Observer What to Do Post-Rehab? Write a Memoir, Of Course
6/12/2005: 916 words, approx. 3 pagesMy Friend Leonard, by James Frey. Riverhead Books, 357 pages, $24.95. James Frey wants you to know he's a real man. A manly man. Perhaps even a manimal. Two years ago, when A Million Little Pieces, the first installation of his unrelenting odyssey into sobriety,...
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