Harry Crosby, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harry Crosby

American writer

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1898

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1929

Profession: poet, socialite, Photographers' Identities Catalog

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Harry Crosby

  • Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929) was an American heir, World War I veteran, bon vivant, poet, and publisher who for some epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature.
  • He was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England, a Boston Brahmin, and the nephew of Jane Norton Grew, the wife of financier J.
  • P.
  • Morgan, Jr..
  • As such, he was heir to a portion of a substantial family fortune.
  • He was a volunteer in the American Field Service during World War I, and later served in the U.S.
  • Ambulance Corps.
  • He narrowly escaped with his life. Profoundly affected by his experience in World War I, Crosby vowed to live life on his own terms and abandoned all pretense of living the expected life of a privileged Bostonian.
  • He had his father's eye for women, and in 1920 met Mrs.
  • Richard Peabody (nĂ©e Mary Phelps Jacob), six years his senior.
  • They had sex within two weeks, and their open affair was the source of scandal and gossip among blue-blood Boston. Mary (or Polly as she was called) divorced her alcoholic husband and to her family's dismay married Crosby.
  • Two days later they left for Europe, where they devoted themselves to art and poetry.
  • Both enjoyed a decadent lifestyle, drinking, smoking opium regularly, traveling frequently, and having an open marriage.
  • Crosby maintained a coterie of young ladies whom he frequently bedded, and wrote and published poetry that dwelled on the symbolism of the sun and explored themes of death and suicide. Crosby's life in Paris was at the crossroads of early 20th-century Paris literary and cultural life.
  • He numbered among his friends some of the most famous individuals of the early 20th century, including Salvador DalĂ­, Ernest Hemingway, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
  • Polly took the name Caresse, and Crosby and she founded the Black Sun Press.
  • It was the first to publish works by a number of struggling authors who later became famous, including James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, D.
  • H.
  • Lawrence, RenĂ© Crevel, T.
  • S.
  • Eliot, and Ezra Pound.
  • Crosby died scandalously in his 31st year as part of a murder–suicide or suicide pact.

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