Nathanael West

1903–1940

3 standalone books

Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein was an American writer and screenwriter born in 1903 in New York City. He attended Brown University and lived in Paris from 1924 to 1931, where he wrote The Dream Life of Balso Snell. Upon returning to New York, he managed a residential hotel and served as associate editor with William Carlos Williams for the magazine Contact. He published several novels, including Miss Lonelyhearts in 1933, A Cool Million in 1934, and The Day of the Locust in 1939. In the last five years of his life, he worked on film scripts in Hollywood. He and his wife died in a car accident in 1940.

Born

1903