Milestones, Jun. 9, 1952

Died. Eugene Jolas, 55, New Jersey-born author, poet, and cofounder (with Elliot Harold Paul in 1927) of the avant-garde Paris literary review transition; of acute nephritis; in Paris. The first to print James Joyce's Work in Progress (which later became Finnegans Wake), transition was also among the first in English with the work of Franz Kafka and Andre Gide (see RELIGION). To such U.S. literary expatriates of the '205 as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Erskine Caldwell, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Hamilton Basso and William Carlos Williams—all glad to work in...

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