Wyndham Lewis

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WL was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit in the art movement known as Vorticism. His political writings included some ill-advised praise of Hitler during the early 1930s. He also published an autobiography.
Black and white photo of Wyndham Lewis in London, taken by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 25 February 1916. Lewis is seated, with legs spread wide, holding a cigarette in one hand and resting his other hand on his knee.

Milestones

18 November 1882

WL , British painter, novelist, and essayist, was born on a yacht at sea off Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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1918

WL published and designed the typography for his first novel, Tarr, which drew on his experience as an artist living in Paris.
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Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.

June 1930

WL privately published The Apes of God, a satire attacking several writers of the 1920s, including Gertrude Stein , the Bloomsbury Group, and the Osbert SitwellSitwell s.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
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Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.

7 March 1957

WL , painter, novelist, and essayist, died in London.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
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Biography

18 November 1882

WL , British painter, novelist, and essayist, was born on a yacht at sea off Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
307

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