12 Facts About Glenway Wescott

Glenway Wescott was an American poet, novelist and essayist.

Glenway Wescott was born on a farm in Kewaskum, Wisconsin in 1901.

Glenway Wescott's younger brother, Lloyd Wescott, was born in Wisconsin in 1907.

Glenway Wescott studied at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of a literary circle including Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Yvor Winters, and Janet Lewis, but left after contracting Spanish flu.

Glenway Wescott travelled to Santa Fe to recover from Spanish flu, where he wrote his first published poetry collection, titled The Bitterns.

Glenway Wescott was the model for the character Robert Prentiss in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

Glenway Wescott has a certain syrup but it does not pour.

Nevertheless, Glenway Wescott was at Lynes' bedside when he died of lung cancer in December 1955.

Apartment in Athens, Glenway Wescott lived until 1987 without writing another novel: journals and the occasional article, yes, but no more fiction.

The Midwest-born author seems to slide into the golden handcuffs of expatriate decadence: supported by the heiress his brother married Barbara Harrison Glenway Wescott, surrounded by literate friends, given to social drinking and letter-writing.

In 1959, when his brother Lloyd acquired a farm near the village of Rosemont in Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Glenway Wescott moved into a two-story stone house on the property, dubbed Haymeadows.

In 1987, Glenway Wescott died of a stroke at his home in Rosemont and was buried in the small farmer's graveyard hidden behind a rock wall and trees at Haymeadows.