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Glenway Wescott's Wisconsin Gothic

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19960623
Author:ROGER FLAHERTY; DOLORES FLAHERTY

Glenway Wescott, one of the American literary expatriates who lived in Paris during the 1920s, is nearly as forgotten today as the Wisconsin pioneer life he portrayed in his fiction. The re-issue of the Wisconsin native's autobiographical novel of 1927, The Grandmothers (University of Wisconsin Press, $15.95), makes available again his insights into the lives of early settlers of the Midwest. They should take their rightful place beside the works of other observers of the frontier heartland such as Willa Cather, Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis.

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