“For the first time in history, the idols of the young are not military heroes or statesmen or rocking-chair philosophers, but other young men, and the most cynical of them.”

About Malcolm Cowley

Literary Critic • American

Malcolm Cowley was an influential American literary critic, historian, poet, and journalist. He is best known for his chronicle of the 'Lost Generation' of American writers in his seminal 1934 book, Exile's Return. As a...