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...

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...

In the following excerpt from his Robert McAlmon: Expatriate Publisher and Writer, Knoll discusses McAlmon's fiction and poetry as unpolished and energetic.

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.

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.