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Nathanael West

Nathanael West

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18 featured booksNathanael 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*

OL544344A

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    Nathanael West

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    Nathanael West

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    OL544344A

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  • Miss Lonelyhearts and A Cool Million

    Representative edition published 2015

    Open Work
  • The Collected Works of Nathanael West

    Representative edition published 2011

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  • A Cool Million

    Representative edition published 2011

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  • Miss Lonelyhearts

    Representative edition published 2009

    Open Work
  • The Dream Life of Balso Snell ; A Cool Million

    Representative edition published 2006

    Open Work
  • The Dream Life of Balso Snell

    Representative edition published 2004

    Open Work
  • The Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso Snell

    Representative edition published 2000

    Open Work
  • Novels & Other Writings

    Representative edition published 1997

    Open Work
  • The Complete Works of Nathanael West

    Representative edition published 1988

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  • The day of the locust and his other novels

    Representative edition published 1983

    Open Work
  • The Day of the Locust

    Representative edition published 1983

    Open Work
  • Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

    Representative edition published 1962

    Open Work
  • Miss Lonelyhearts (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

    Representative edition published 2014

    Open Work
  • Geveret Lev Boded

    Representative edition published 1983

    Open Work
  • Yom ha-arbeh

    Representative edition published 1980

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  • Complete works

    Representative edition published 1966

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  • Two novels

    Representative edition published 1963

    Open Work
  • Dzień szarańczy

    Representative edition published 1963

    Open Work