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- DIED. Malcolm Cowley, 90, journalist, poet and
- mild-mannered Boswell to the Lost Generation of American
- expatriate writers in post-World War I Paris; in New Milford,
- Conn. Drawn to the creative ferment of the French capital,
- Cowley joined a literary circle that included Ernest Hemingway,
- John Dos Passos and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and chronicled the
- scene in his 1934 book, Exile's Return. As an editor in the
- 1920s and '30s, he sympathized with the Communist Party (but
- later disavowed it) and championed the writings of William
- Faulkner. Cowley's critical essays brought prominence to
- Faulkner and nurtured the career of John Cheever.
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