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Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
Nathanael West (born Oct. 17, 1903, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 22, 1940, near El Centro, Calif.) was an American writer best known for satiric novels of the 1930s. Of middle-class Jewish immigrant parentage, he attended high school in New York City and graduated from Brown University in 1924.
Jan 27, 2016 · The blackly comic energy of Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts —its caustic ebullience, the strange buoyancy of its suffering—is a remarkably American achievement, a kind of death-dance capered on the corpse of a vividly rendered early 1930s Manhattan.
Nathanael West (October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was the pen name of U.S. author, screenwriter, and satirist Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein. West's novels, in particular Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, were influenced by the Depression.
Nathanael West (Author of The Day of the Locust) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Nathanael West's books. Join Goodreads. Nathanael West’s Followers (347) Born. in New York City, The United States. October 17, 1903. Died. December 22, 1940. Genre. Fiction, Novellas. edit data.
NATHANAEL WEST, who died in 1940 at the age of thirty-six, published four curious, highly original novels during the thirties, of which the second, Miss Lonelyhearts, and the fourth, The Day of...
May 17, 2018 · Nathanael West (October 17, 1903–December 22, 1940) may well have been the quintessential Depression-decade novelist. He published all four of his depressive short novels in the 1930s and then died, quickly and tragically. He was born Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein in New York City.
