(Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, 1892 - New York, 1980) American writer. After being privately educated by her father and grandmother, she moved to New York to study art. She quickly became part of the avant-garde in Greenwich Village, where she met, among others, Robert Frost, Eugene O'Neill, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore. Around the 1920s, like almost all American artists and writers, she moved to Paris. During the interwar years, she frequented major figures from the world of cinema and literature, from Charles Chaplin and Marcel Duchamp to James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Alexis Carrel, Samuel Beckett, and Ernest Hemingway.
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