Malcolm Cowley
August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989
Countries:
USA
Place of Birth:
Belsano, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Death:
New Milford, Connecticut, United States
Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. He is best known for his first book of poetry, Blue Juniata (1929), and his lyrical memoir, Exile's Return (1934; revised ed. 1951), as a chronicler and fellow traveller of the Lost Generation, and as an influential editor and talent scout at Viking Press.