George Platt Lynes (April 15, 1907 – December 6, 1955)

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Glenway Wescott was an American novelist and an important figure in the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Upon receiving a small printing press as a gift from his father, Monroe Wheeler began producing chapbooks of poetry under the imprint, Manikin Press. One of his first works was The Bitterns, a collection of poems by Wescott, whom he had met at the University of Chicago in 1919 and who would become Wheeler's long-time companion. 1927 brought a new challenge to their pairing: George Platt Lynes fell passionately in love with the strikingly good-looking Wheeler. Wheeler, for his part, was entranced by Lynes's "full, luscious mouth and his wasp like waist." The ménage a trois ended in February 1943 when Lynes moved out of the apartment that the three men shared, thus bringing to a close one of the longer chapters that supplemented the sixty-plus years relationship between Wescott and Wheeler. Lynes would eventually succumb to cancer in 1955 at the age of 48. Wheeler died in 1988 at the age of 89, 18 months after the death of Wescott.

Timeline & Places:

April 15, 1907: born.

1920s: attended Berkshire School, 245 N Undermountain Rd, Sheffield, MA 01257, USA

1926: attended Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, Stati Uniti

1950s: lived at Stone-blossom, Clinton, NJ 08809, Stati Uniti, sharing with Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Wescott

December 6, 1955: died. Buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, E 233rd St & Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY 10470, Stati Uniti

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Comments

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Amazing! What a pity he was born 50 years too soon to get the recognition he deserved.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

The cultural environment was probably more lively at that time, but not sure the society was ready for him