Robert Cantwell
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Robert Emmett Cantwell, known as Robert Cantwell, was a novelist and critic. His first novel, Laugh and Lie Down is an early example, twenty years before Jack Kerouac, of the American classic genre th
Cantwell in the 1930s
Crowd gathering at Wall Street and Broad Street after 1929 crash - the Great Depression shaped Cantwell's experience in New York City
Sawmill, Union Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, California 1920s
Hemingway (center) with Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens and German writer Ludwig Renn during Spanish Civil War, 1937 - Hemingway was one of Cantwell's greatest and longest-term admirers
Calvin Fixx
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Calvin Fixx, born Calvin Henry Fix, was an American journalist and editor, lifelong friend of Robert Cantwell and friend of Whittaker Chambers, both fellow editors at Time magazine. All three were eit
Robert Cantwell
…his major writings. In 1929, after selling a short story "Hanging by My Thumbs" to The New American Caravan, he moved (with help from childhood friend Calvin Fixx) to New York City, landed a book contract with Farrar and Rinehart, and began work on his first novel, Laugh and Lie Down (1931). From 1930 to 1935…
View of Aberdeen, Washington, where Fixx began lifelong friendship with Robert Cantwell
Residential street in Jackson Heights, Queens, where Fixx lived much of his life
Whittaker Chambers joined Robert Cantwell as close friend of Fixx's during their years at Time