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Robert McAlmon

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Biography

Name: Robert (Menzies) McAlmon
Variant Name: Robert McAlmon, Guy Urquhart, Robert Menzies McAlmon
Birth Date: March 9, 1896
Death Date: February 2, 1956
Place of Birth: Clifton, Kansas
Place of Death: Hot Springs, California
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert (Menzies) McAlmon
6,033 words, approx. 20 pages
In many ways Robert McAlmon was one of the best representatives of his time. He came to Paris in 1921 with little French and no particular interest in French culture; he spent most of his productive years in Paris, but he remained always an American...
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Biography of Robert (Menzies) McAlmon
1,905 words, approx. 6 pages
Robert McAlmon is one of the major, though neglected, literary figures of the 1920s. He stood at the center of the whole phenomenon known to legend as "the lost generation," that extraordinary company of expatriate writers who for a decade turned Paris...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Robert McAlmon Information
519 words, approx. 2 pages
Robert Menzies McAlmon (March 9, 1896 - February 2, 1956) was an American author, poet and...


News and Journals
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College Literature
Constrained in liberation: performative queerness in Robert McAlmon's Berlin stories.(Critical Essay)
06/22/2004: 6,580 words, approx. 22 pages
One of the most influential developments in gender theory during the 1990s was Judith Butler's contention that "[g]ender ought not to be construed as a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts follow; rather, gender is an identity tenuously constituted in...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Robert E. Knoll
18,438 words, approx. 62 pages
In the following excerpt from his Robert McAlmon: Expatriate Publisher and Writer, Knoll discusses McAlmon's fiction and poetry as unpolished and energetic.
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Critical Essay by Sanford J. Smoller
4,068 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Smoller examines McAlmon's critical reception, believing that McAlmon was a successful writer despite the fact that he is lesser-known than most of his contemporaries.
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Critical Essay by Edward N. S. Lorusso
3,814 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following introduction to a reissue of McAlmon's Post-Adolescence, Lorusso writes that McAlmon's prose contains many flaws, but that several of his stories identify him as a significant American writer.
 


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