Edouard Roditi letters : to Steven Watson, 1991 Jul 26-1992 Feb 26.

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Edouard Roditi letters : to Steven Watson, 1991 Jul 26-1992 Feb 26.

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Three ALS and four TLS, with four envelopes, written in response to questions regarding Watson's research of Max Ewing. Roditi discusses his memories of Ewing, Ettie, Carrie, and Florine Stettheimer, and other writers and artists in New York City during the 1930s, including discussion of speakeasies, gay nightlife, and other aspects of social life during the Harlem Renaissance. Roditi also responds to questions regarding Watson's Strange Bedfellows: the First American Avant-Garde.

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Edouard Roditi was born in Paris, June 6, 1910; he was educated in England at Elstree, Charterhouse, and Balliol, and received a BA from the Univ. of Chicago; he became acquainted with T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, AndreĢ Breton and other leading literary figures, while living in London, Paris, and Berlin (1929-37); he published the first Surrealist manifesto in English, "The new reality", in the Oxford outlook (1929); while continuing his literary interests, he worked for the US government during WW...