Nathanael West
Nathanael West
Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein was born in 1903 in New York City. He attended Brown University and from 1924 to 1931 he lived in Paris, where he wrote *The Dream Life of Balso Snell*. On his return to New York, he managed a residential hotel and was associate editor, with [William Carlos Williams](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL219856A/William_Carlos_Williams), of the magazine *Contact*. *Miss Lonelyhearts* appeared in 1933, *A Cool Million* in 1934 and *The Day of the Locust* in 1939. He worked on film scripts in Hollywood for the last five years of his life. He and his wife were tragically killed in a car accident in 1940. *--Penguin Books* Photo *--Wikicommons*
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Miss Lonelyhearts and A Cool Million
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The Collected Works of Nathanael West
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A Cool Million
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Miss Lonelyhearts
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The Dream Life of Balso Snell ; A Cool Million
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The Dream Life of Balso Snell
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The Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso Snell
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Novels & Other Writings
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The Complete Works of Nathanael West
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The day of the locust and his other novels
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The Day of the Locust
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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
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Miss Lonelyhearts (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
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Geveret Lev Boded
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Yom ha-arbeh
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Complete works
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Two novels
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Miss Lonelyhearts and A Cool Million
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The Collected Works of Nathanael West
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A Cool Million
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Miss Lonelyhearts
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The Dream Life of Balso Snell ; A Cool Million
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The Dream Life of Balso Snell
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The Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso Snell
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Novels & Other Writings
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The Complete Works of Nathanael West
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The day of the locust and his other novels
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The Day of the Locust
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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
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Miss Lonelyhearts (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
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Geveret Lev Boded
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Yom ha-arbeh
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Complete works
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Two novels
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