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
Louis Kronenberger
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Louis Kronenberger was an American literary critic, novelist, and biographer who wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.
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…an editor named Tom Matthews had gathered a brilliant group of writers, including James Agee, Robert Fitzgerald, Whittaker Chambers, Robert Cantwell, Louis Kronenberger, and Calvin Fixx... They were dazzling. Time's style was still very hokey—“backward ran sentences till reeled the mind”—but I could tell, even as a…
Louis Kronenberger (1955) Photo by Carl Van Vechten
John Wilkes by Richard Houston (1769), about whom Kronenberger wrote in 1974
Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony (1882), about whom Kronenberger wrote in 1976