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(1903-1940) Novelist, screenwriter. Nathanael West was born in Manhattan, New York and is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens, New York. In 1931, he worked on his famous novel “Miss Lonelyhearts” (1933) while vacationing in a cabin on Viele Pond near Warrensburg, New York.

Full Name

Nathanael West

Locations

Warren

Author's Timeline

1903

BIRTH

Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein (Nathanael West) was born in Manhattan, New York in 1903.

1931

LITWORK

The Dream Life of Balso Snell
Contact Editions.

Novel.

1933

LITWORK

Miss Lonelyhearts
Liveright.

In 1931, West worked on his famous novel "Miss Lonelyhearts" while vacationing in a cabin on Viele Pond near Warrensburg, New York.

1934

LITWORK

A Cool Million
Covici Friede.

Novel.

1934

LITWORK

Even Stephen


Play in collaboration with S.J. Perelman.

1938

LITWORK

Good Hunting


Play; co-written with Joseph Schrank.

1939

LITWORK

The Day of the Locust
Random House.

Novel.

1940

INTERMENT

Nathanael West is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens, New York.

1940

DEATH

Nathanael West died near El Centro, California in 1940.

1957

LITWORK

The Complete Works of Nathanael West
Farrar Straus and Company, reprinted in 1963, 1975.

Collection including West's four novels.

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