Glenway Wescott

Glenway Wescott (April 11, 1901 – February 22, 1987) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. A figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s, Wescott was openly gay. His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.

Early life

Wescott was born on a farm in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, in 1901. His younger brother, Lloyd Wescott, was born in Wisconsin in 1907. He studied at the University of Chicago, Although he began his writing career as a poet, he is best known for his short stories and novels, notably The Grandmothers (1927), which received the Harper Novel prize, Lynes ended his relationship with Wescott and Wheeler in 1943 to be with his studio assistant, Jonathan Tichenor. Nevertheless, Wescott was at Lynes' bedside when he died of lung cancer in December 1955.

Later life In 1959, when his brother Lloyd acquired a farm near the village of Rosemont in Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Wescott moved into a two-story stone house on the property, dubbed Haymeadows.

Books The Bitterns (1920) poems The Apple of the Eye (1924) novel Natives of Rock (1925) poems Like a Lover (1926) stories The Grandmothers (1927) novel [Published as A Family Portrait in England] Goodbye, Wisconsin (1928) stories

Film adaptations In 2011, Apartment in Athens was adapted into a film of the same name by Italian director Ruggero Dipaola.