The Boston Globe, March 30th, 1989
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 was one of what Gertrude Stein called the "Lost Generation" of expatriate American writers in Paris after World War I -- a group that included Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. With a firmly grounded confidence in his own judgment, he recognized the brilliance of that generation. His "Portable Faulkner," published in 1946, i...
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