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Oct 17, 1903 — Dec 22, 1940· 37 yrs

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Nathanael West

Also known as: West, Nathanael, 1902-1940., Nathanael WEST

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Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein was born in 1903 in New York City. He attended Brown University and from 1924 to 1931 he lived in Paris, where he wrote The Dream Life of Balso Snell. On his return to New York, he managed a residential hotel and was associate editor, with [William Carlos Williams]( of the magazine Contact. Miss Lonelyhearts appeared in 1933, A Cool Million in 1934 and The Day of the Locust in 1939. He worked on film scripts in Hollywood for the last five years of his life. He and his wife were tragically killed in a car accident in 1940. --Penguin Books Photo --Wikicommons

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Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office.

— from The Day of the Locust, 1983

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#2

The Dream Life of Balso Snell ; A Cool Million

1982

4.0 (1)

" Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."--Publisher's website.

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The Day of the Locust

1983

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Following the tale of Tod Hackett - a brilliant young artist who is brought to an LA studio as a set designer - 'The Day of the Locust' is an exposure of the sordid reality beneath the surface of Hollywood.

#3

Miss Lonelyhearts and A Cool Million

1961

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