29 Facts About Robert Cantwell

Robert Emmett Cantwell, known as Robert Cantwell, was a novelist and critic.

Robert Cantwell's first novel, Laugh and Lie Down is an early example, twenty years before Jack Kerouac, of the American classic genre the "road novel", and an important example of the "Depression novel" period genre.

Robert Emmet Cantwell was born on January 31,1908, in Little Falls, Washington.

Robert Cantwell's parents were Charles James Cantwell, an engineer, and Nina Adelia Hanson.

Robert Cantwell had an older sibling James Leroy and younger siblings Frances Dorothy and Charles Harry.

Robert Cantwell attended the University of Washington and then spent the next four years working at Harbor Plywood Co.

Robert Cantwell published a number of short stories in The Miscellany, American Caravan, Pagany, and The New Republic.

Meantime, to support himself while writing, Robert Cantwell took on regular-paying jobs.

Robert Cantwell took off work and received treatment at the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum.

Robert Cantwell spent three years researching and writing the biography, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American Years.

Robert Cantwell worked for the magazine from 1956 until his death in 1978.

Robert Cantwell worked on a number of articles, three of which became books: Alexander Wilson: Naturalist and Pioneer, The Real McCoy, and The Hidden Northwest.

Robert Cantwell married Mary Elizabeth Chambers, known as Betsy, a teacher, on February 2,1931: she was a cousin of Lyle Saxon, whom Fixx had been serving as secretary.

Robert Cantwell later married Allison Joy, a noted portrait painter, and, briefly, Eva Stolz Gilleran shortly before his death in 1978.

Robert Cantwell was rumored to have been the inspiration for many of the scenes in the Eric Hodgins novel Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House.

Robert Cantwell dismissed his radical affiliations of youth obliquely in later life, saying "I had no interest in politics" and no political aspirations.

Robert Cantwell joined the League of Professional Writers for Foster and Ford.

Robert Cantwell died in 1978, aged 70, in St Luke's hospital in New York City, after suffering a heart attack two weeks earlier.

Bob Robert Cantwell was with us during the last 22 years of his life, in which he wrote dozens of memorable articles, among them a portrayal of Cecil Smith, the Texas cowboy who became perhaps the greatest polo player the world has ever seen.

When Robert Cantwell wrote of Banjo Paterson, the virtually unknown author of Waltzing Matilda, he made sure that a colorful footnote to history was not going to be lost, at least not to SI readers.

In October 1931, Robert Cantwell attended a dinner party in honor of his first novel, Laugh and Lie Down, where he met Whittaker Chambers, friend Mike Intrator, and Intrator's wife Grace Lumpkin.

When Chambers went into the Soviet underground in mid-1932, Robert Cantwell knew; he declined to let Chambers use his home as a letter drop.

Robert Cantwell helped get Whittaker Chambers a job at Time magazine, as Chambers recounted in his memoirs:.

Robert Cantwell was then one of the editors of Time magazine.

Robert Cantwell thought I should try for a book reviewer's job.

When Chambers published his memoirs, Robert Cantwell wrote a negative review.

In later years, Robert Cantwell would express skepticism that Chambers even was in the underground; at others, he would express great fear of Soviet retribution.

Robert Cantwell wrote articles for TIME and Fortune magazines from 1935 to 1941.

Robert Cantwell wrote articles mostly for Sports Illustrated from 1956 to 1978.