Book Series Guide

Author guide

Malcolm Cowley Books in Order

Malcolm Cowley was an American poet, literary critic, editor, memoirist, and literary historian. A chronicler of the Lost Generation, he worked at The New Republic and later as an editorial adviser at Viking Press, where he helped revive the reputations of William Faulkner and other American writers. His books combine literary history, cultural criticism, memoir, poetry, and correspondence.

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Exile's Return: A Narrative of Ideas

The central and most accessible account of Cowley's Lost Generation experience and literary formation.

A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation

A mature, engaging work on the lives and careers of the Lost Generation writers.

And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918–1978

A broad retrospective memoir of Cowley's career as critic, editor, and literary intermediary.

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Poet of the Month

A New Directions poetry series in which The Dry Season appeared as volume 1941, number 12.

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    The Dry Season

    Book 12 · poetry · 1941

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Nonfiction (14)
  1. Exile's Return: A Narrative of Ideas

    memoir · 1934

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  2. After the Genteel Tradition: American Writers Since 1910

    literary-criticism · 1937

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  3. Aragon: Poet of the French Resistance

    biography · 1945

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  4. Faulkner

    literary-criticism · 1946

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  5. The Literary Situation

    literary-criticism · 1954

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  6. The Hawthornes in Paradise

    literary-criticism · 1958

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  7. Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518–1865

    history · 1962

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  8. Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age

    literary-history · 1966

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  9. Think Back on Us: A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930s

    literary-history · 1967

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  10. A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation

    literary-history · 1973

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  11. And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918–1978

    memoir · 1978

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  12. The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s

    memoir · 1980

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  13. The View from 80

    memoir · 1980

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  14. Unshaken Friend: A Profile of Maxwell Perkins

    biography · 1986

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Essays and speeches (1)
  1. A Many-Windowed House: Collected Essays on American Writers and American Writing

    essays · 1970

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Poetry (2)
  1. Blue Juniata

    poetry · 1929

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  2. Blue Juniata: A Life: Collected and New Poems

    poetry · 1985

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Other (2)
  1. The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memories, 1944–1962

    correspondence · 1966

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  2. The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915–1987

    correspondence · 2014

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