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    Robert Menzies McAlmon (also used Robert M. McAlmon, as his signature name, March 9, 1895 – February 2, 1956) was an American writer, poet, and publisher...
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  • Hartley at a party hosted by Lola Ridge, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon endeavored to create an outlet for works showcasing Williams' theory...
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  • Beatrice Wood from San Francisco were caught in the fever of creativity. Robert McAlmon, and Maria and Eugene Jolas came to Paris and published their literary...
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    the Fitzgeralds were introduced to Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Robert McAlmon, and others. Scott and Hemingway became close friends, but Zelda and...
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    Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Vincent Benét, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby...
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    American Novel, and Distinguished Air by Robert McAlmon. On the business side there was a close involvement with McAlmon's Contact Editions. Bird's interest...
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    essays on Joyce which also included contributions by Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, and William Carlos Williams). Beckett's close relationship with Joyce...
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    Minghetti. Albert McKisco – an American novelist who wins a duel against Tommy Barban. Based on novelist Robert McAlmon. Violet McKisco – the gossipy...
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  • Llona ("I Dont Know What to Call It but Its Mighty Unlikely Prose") Robert McAlmon ("Mr. Joyce Directs an Irish Word Ballet") Thomas MacGreevy ("The Catholic...
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    Surrealist guest high on drugs had tried to stab Pound in the back; Robert McAlmon had wrestled with the attacker, and the guests had managed to leave...
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    attentions to Contact, a periodical launched by Williams and fellow writer Robert McAlmon: "The two editors sought American cultural renewal in the local condition...
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    Bruccoli 2002, p. 284: According to biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, author Robert McAlmon and other contemporaries in Paris publicly asserted that Fitzgerald...
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  • volume of poems by William Carlos Williams, first published in 1923 by Robert McAlmon's Contact Publishing Co. Spring and All is a hybrid work consisting of...
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  • William Bruce Almon William Johnston Almon (1816–1901), Nova Scotian physician and Canadian politician, son of William Bruce Almon Robert McAlmon (1895–1956)...
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  • Stories and Ten Poems. Three hundred copies were printed in Paris by Robert McAlmon in 1923. It reappeared in 1938 in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine...
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    Bruccoli 2002, p. 284: According to biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, author Robert McAlmon and other contemporaries in Paris publicly asserted that Fitzgerald...
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    1972) and three volumes of poetry (Twenty-five Poems, published by Robert McAlmon in Paris in 1923; Androscoggin, 1940; and Sea Burial, 1941. Posthumous...
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    author, journalist, comedian Noel Langley, South African novelist Robert McAlmon, author Jerome Storm, film director Joan Woodbury, actress Rick Zumwalt...
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    entered a marriage of convenience with the American writer and publisher Robert McAlmon, allowing him to use some of her wealth to fund his Paris-based Contact...
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    Work Series" (1966) Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 (1968; with Robert McAlmon) Winter Night and a conversation with the author in New Sounds In American...
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  • this is my only preoccupation. — Constantin Brâncuși The publisher Robert McAlmon's 1925 collection of short stories Distinguished Air is set in the gay...
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    suggesting a cohesive set. In June 1923, Hemingway took Hadley, with Robert McAlmon and Bird, to Spain where he found a new passion with his first visits...
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    arrived in Paris in April 1927 and soon afterward met the American author Robert McAlmon, who brought him to Constantin Brâncuși's studio for an introduction...
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  • Caresse Crosby in Paris Contact Publishing Company, founded 1923 by Robert McAlmon (1895–1956) in Paris Harrison of Paris, founded 1930 by Monroe Wheeler...
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    Progress" in the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers, edited by Robert McAlmon. "The Letter" was published as "Fragment of an Unpublished Work" in...
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  • have little or no further association with the group: Howard Weeks, Robert McAlmon, Joyce Hopkins, Norman Macleod, Kenneth Rexroth, S. Theodore Hecht,...
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    That summer, in company with Dos Passos, Donald Ogden Stewart and Robert McAlmon, they visited the San Fermin festival in Pamplona in July and participated...
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  • Washington Noel Langley – novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director Robert McAlmon – author, poet and publisher Jerome Storm – film director, actor and...
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    Hemingway. It was privately published in 1923 in a run of 300 copies by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris. The three stories are: "Up in Michigan"...
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  • February 17, 2007. Picknett, Lynn, Prince, Clive, Prior, Stephen & Brydon, Robert (2002). War of the Windsors: A Century of Unconstitutional Monarchy, p....
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