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Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
Nathanael West (born Oct. 17, 1903, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 22, 1940, near El Centro, Calif.) was an American writer best known for satiric novels of the 1930s. Of middle-class Jewish immigrant parentage, he attended high school in New York City and graduated from Brown University in 1924.
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Nathanael West (October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was the pen name of U.S. author, screenwriter, and satirist Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein. West's novels, in particular Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, were influenced by the Depression.
NATHANAEL WEST, who died in 1940 at the age of thirty-six, published four curious, highly original novels during the thirties, of which the second, Miss Lonelyhearts, and the fourth, The Day of...
West spent the rest of his days in Hollywood, writing B-movie screenplays for small studios and immersing himself in the unglamorous underworld of Tinseltown, with its dope dealers, extras, gangsters, whores and has-beens. All would end up in West's final masterpiece, The Day of the Locust.
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The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West set in Hollywood, California. The novel follows a young artist from the Yale School of Fine Arts named Tod Hackett, who has been hired by a Hollywood studio to do scene design and painting.
Jan 27, 2016 · A review of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, a novel that scours and cauterizes the American spirit in the Depression era. The reviewer praises West's blackly comic language, his merciless critique of religion, art, and communication, and his nihilist character Shrike.
