Glenway Wescott earned a sustained literary reputation primarily for his short stories and novels written and published during the 1920s while he resided in France (particularly Villefranche, near Nice) and for his novella The Pilgrim Hawk (1940). He was one of the youngest of those American writers who made France their workshop after World War I and who, with the distance and objectivity that foreign residence provided, frequently analyzed and assessed their American backgrounds, culture, and experience. During the 1920s Wescott's reputation rivaled those of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, also midwesterners and expatriates in France. When Wescott won the Harper Prize for his novel The Grandmothers in 1927, he elicited expectations among critics and writers that he would enjoy a major writing career. However, after 1930 Wescott published little fiction and none at all after 1945, when his last novel, Apartment in Athens, was published. Wescott's early promise did prove...