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Michael Arlen (born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian;, Armenian: Տիգրան Գույումճյան, 16 November 1895 – 23 June 1956) was an essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter.
Jun 19, 2024 · Michael Arlen was a British author whose novels and short stories epitomized the brittle gaiety and underlying cynicism and disillusionment of fashionable post-World War I London society. The son of an Armenian merchant, Arlen was brought up in England, to which his father had escaped to avoid.
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Michael John Arlen (born December 9, 1930, London, England) is an American writer, primarily of non-fiction and personal history, as well as a longtime staff writer and television critic for The New Yorker.
Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England.
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Sep 28, 2023 · Michael Arlen (1895-1956) was a literary shooting star among the smart set of the 1920s. The self-styled chronicler of Mayfair society, he became an international celebrity after the publication of his scandalous novel The Green Hat in 1924.
Dec 1, 2020 · Michael Arlen was one of the most successful popular novelists of the interwar period, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1927. Best known in his day for the novel The Green Hat ( 1924 ), he lived intermittently in Paris in the later 1920s, where he encountered American expatriates, including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Oct 3, 2023 · Philip Ward, who was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2017, has published Encounters with Michael Arlen. Michael Arlen (1895-1956) was a literary shooting star among the smart set of the 1920s.
