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100 1 $aCurtiss, Thomas Quinn.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97067729
245 14 $aThe smart set :$bGeorge Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken /$cThomas Quinn Curtiss.
260 $aNew York :$bApplause,$c[1998], ©1998.
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300 $a266 pages :$bportrait ;$c24 cm
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500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aMore than any other critic, George Jean Nathan was responsible for the emergence of Eugene O'Neill to the forefront of the American theatre. He blew the trumpets for him season after season, badgered the Broadway producers to do him, shamed the Theatre Guild into sponsoring him, and then watched the momentum of all these campaigns culminate in the Pulitzer, and eventually, the Nobel Prize. It was Nathan who discovered James Joyce's Dubliners and published it in The Smart Set. F.
520 8 $aScott Fitzgerald was first recognized by Nathan, who published Fitzgerald's first fiction in The Smart Set. And when Fitzgerald needed a model for a lively drama critic in his novel The Beautiful and the Damned, Nathan was immediately and perfectly cast.
520 8 $aThomas Quinn Curtiss has reunited Nathan with his cohort, H.L. Mencken, together with the rest of their set: Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Edmund Wilson, Sean O'Casey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alfred Knopf, Jack London, Somerset Maugham. The magnificent abandon of their enterprise and the hard drinking Bohemian wisdom of their writing propelled them and fueled generations of readers with their wit and philosophy.
520 8 $aThis is a biography of an era of men whose stories could only be written by an eyewitness.
600 10 $aNathan, George Jean,$d1882-1958$xFriends and associates.
600 10 $aMencken, H. L.$q(Henry Louis),$d1880-1956$xFriends and associates.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005016
650 0 $aCriticism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101957
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100576
650 0 $aEditors$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102652
650 0 $aCritics$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101202
650 0 $aDramatic criticism$zUnited States.
630 00 $aSmart set (New York, N.Y.)
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