Malcolm Cowley

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

• Malcolm Cowley quotes

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.