Robert Cantwell
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Robert Emmett Cantwell (January 31, 1908 – December 8, 1978), known as Robert Cantwell, was a novelist and critic.
His most notable work, The Land of Plenty, focuses on a lumber mill in a thinly disguised version of his hometown in Washington state.
Personal life and death
Cantwell married Mary Elizabeth Chambers, known as Betsy, a teacher, on February 2, 1931: she (no relation to Whittaker Chambers) was a cousin of Lyle Saxon, whom Fixx had been serving as secretary. They had three children: Joan McNiece (Mrs. George Stolz, Jr.), Betsy Ann (Mrs. Walter Pusey III), and Mary Elizabeth Emmett (Mrs. Lars-Erik Nelson).
He later married Allison Joy, a noted portrait painter, and, briefly, Eva Stolz Gilleran shortly before his death in 1978.
Cantwell was rumored to have been the inspiration for many of the scenes in the Eric Hodgins novel Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. While working together at Fortune, Cantwell had encouraged Hogkins to purchase a property not far from his own house in Sherman, Connecticut, and Cantwell's two daughters at the time had the same names as the two daughters in the novel: Betsy and Joan.
During the Hiss Case, the FBI often lurked around Cantwell's home in Sherman and questioned neighbors.
Cantwell dismissed his radical affiliations of youth obliquely in later life, saying "I had no interest in politics" and no (public) political aspirations. Nevertheless, his circles in the 1930s a strong Leftist one that included Schapiro (Marxist), Cowley (Communist Party fellow traveller), Holmlund and Calvin Fixx (Communist Party members), and Chambers (Soviet spy). Further, his correspondence shows a strong interest, for example, in the CPUSA ticket for 1932 elections, which included William Z. Foster for president and James W. Ford for vice president. He also joined the League of Professional Writers for Foster and Ford. (Cantwell noted that he voted for Roosevelt so he would not "throw away" his vote.) Also in the Fall of 1932, he traveled to Washington, DC, with Cowley to cover the National Hunger March for The New Republic. Biographer Per Seyersted concluded, "That Cantwell did not use correct Marxist terminology would seem to indicate that he was no CP member, that however to the left he was and in sympathy with the Party's aims, he was an independent person doing his own thinking." This reflected his background in West Coast populist-progressive-anarchist political culture, something quite different from New York City European-oriented doctrinaire Marxism—the Grange, the Progressive Party, the Wobblies, rather than the regimen of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist party discipline. The Centralia strikers were Wobblies.
He died in 1978, aged 70, in St. Luke's hospital in New York City, after suffering a heart attack two weeks earlier.
In his obituary, Sports Illustrated wrote:
Cantwell's correspondence includes: James T. Farrell, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, Van Wyck Brooks, Erskine Caldwell, Malcolm Cowley, Henry Luce, Clare Boothe Luce, Marianne Moore, T. S. Matthews, and Edmund Wilson.
Other members of his family are of note: his great-grandfather was Michael Troutman Simmons, known for establishing the first permanent settlement in what is now Tacoma, Washington, and his nephew, Colin Cantwell, is known for, among other things, designing the Death Star in Star Wars.
Career
In 1929, after delivering a short story "Hanging by My Thumbs" to The New American Caravan, he moved (with support from childhood friend Calvin Fixx) to New York City and began to write Laugh and Lie Down (1931). He wrote The Land of Plenty (1934), his second book, from 1930 to 1935 (and during the Great Depression). In The Miscellany, American Caravan, Pagany, and The New Republic, he had a number of short stories. In December 1933, he accepted work that had already been dismissed by Whittaker Chambers, namely co-write a biography of Boston's E. A. Filene, in collaboration with Lincoln Steffens. Steffens died in 1936 after a heart attack; Cantwell gave the manuscript to Filene in 1937.
Cantwell began to visit New York writers and editors like Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, John Chamberlain, Erskine Caldwell, Matthew Josephson, and Harry Hansen throughout the 1930s. His circle widened to include James T. Farrell, Meyer Schapiro, John Dos Passos, Newton Arvin, Kenneth Burke, Kenneth Burke, Kenneth Burke, Kenneth Burke, Kenneth Burke, Kenneth Fearing, Fred Dupee, Elof Holmlund, and Whittaker Chambers.
"Cantwell was always short of money and, as a result of being in a hasty, to finish a piece and get paid."
Cantwell, on the other hand, began writing to assist himself while writing, so he began working in regular-paying jobs. He served as the literary editor of New Outlook magazine from November 1932 to its close in 1935. He also wrote for the New Masses under the pen name "Robert Simmons." According to Mary McCarthy's 1992 posthumous Intellectual Memoirs, he served as assistant literary editor at The New Republic from 1933 to 1936; McCarthy also recalls him as a "real participant" in the mid-1930s.
Cantwell joined Time's editorial staff as a book reviewer on April 23, 1935 and 1936. He joined Fortune's sister publication in 1937. He returned to Time as associate editor (1938-1945). In 1939, he helped his buddy Chambers get his old job as a book reviewer. At Time in Saroyan's play, Love's Old Sweet Song, William Saroyan names Cantwell among "associate editors."
Cantwell had a nervous breakdown in 1941. He stayed off work and received medical attention at the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American Years (1948), a three-year investigation and writer.
He worked as Newsweek's literary editor from 1949 to 1954.
He began freelancing again in 1954, but it wasn't until 1956 that he began a relationship with Sports Illustrated that he began.
He worked with the magazine from 1956 to 1980. Alexander Wilson: Naturalist and Pioneer (1961), three of which became books, and The Hidden Northwest (1972). His books include chess, ornithology, sports in the films, and literary figures in sports.