
Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American literary critic and social historian, focusing mainly on the writers of the Lost Generation. His most famous work is Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas.1
Works
Poetry
- Blue Juniata (1929)
- The Dry Season (1941)
- Blue Juniata: A Life: Collected and New Poems (1985)
Non-fiction
- Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas (1934)
- Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s (1951)
- The Literary Situation (1954)
- Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865 (1962)With Daniel Pratt Mannix
- The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memoirs, 1944-1962 (1966)
- Think Back on Us: A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930s (1969)
- A Many-Windowed House: Collected Essays on American Writers and American Writing (1970)
- The Lesson of the Masters (1971)With Howard Hugo
- A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation (1973)
- And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade (1978)
- The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s (1980)
- The View from Eighty (1980)
- The Flower and the Leaf (1985)
- Unshaken Friend (1986)
- The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 (1988)
- The Portable Malcolm Cowley (1990)
- New England Writers and Writing (1996)
See also
External Links
- Malcolm Cowley Papers at The Newberry Library
- Malcolm Cowley in the Library of Congress
- Goodreads profile
- IMDb profile
- Poetry Foundation profile
References
1. “Malcolm Cowley.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 26, 2020.