James Branch Cabell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Branch Cabell

American author

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1879

Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 05-May-1958

Profession: writer, novelist, autobiographer, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

James Branch Cabell (; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres.
Cabell was well-regarded by his contemporaries, including H.
L.
Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis.
His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular.
For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare."Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical.
H.
L.
Mencken disputed Cabell's claim to romanticism and characterized him as "really the most acidulous of all the anti-romantics.
His gaudy heroes ...
chase dragons precisely as stockbrockers play golf." Cabell saw art as an escape from life, but once the artist creates his ideal world, he finds that it is made up of the same elements that make the real one.Interest in Cabell declined in the 1930s, a decline that has been attributed in part to his failure to move out of his fantasy niche despite the onset of World War II.
Alfred Kazin said that "Cabell and Hitler did not inhabit the same universe".



Alternative names	Carl Van Vetchen; Carl van Vechten
Description	American writer and photographer
Date of birth/death	17 June 1880	21 December 1964
Location of birth/death	Cedar Rapids	New York City
Authority control	: Q312851 VIAF: 5056030 ISNI: 0000 0001 1558 7789 ULAN: 500058409 LCCN: n78095475 NLA: 35576955 WorldCat