Harold Loeb
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Harold Albert Loeb was an American
figure active in the arts in Paris in the 1920s. Loeb attended Princeton University
where he boxed. Loeb served in World War I and after the War was Ernest Hemingway's sparring partner. Loeb served as co-editor of Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts (along with Alfred Kreymborg
). He was the cousin of Peggy Guggenheim
. He had an affair with Kathleen Eaton Cannell
as well as with Duff, Lady Twysden. Ernest Hemingway
used him as the model for the literary dabbler Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises
, with Twysden being the model for Brett Ashley.
His novel, The Professors Like Vodka, was published in 1927, and reissued in paperback (with a new afterword by the author) in 1974. Loeb published a memoir in 1959 titled The Way it Was: A Memoir. Loeb also wrote the book, Life in a Technocracy: What it Might be Like .
He was married to Marjorie Content with whom he had two children.
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figure active in the arts in Paris in the 1920s. Loeb attended Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
where he boxed. Loeb served in World War I and after the War was Ernest Hemingway's sparring partner. Loeb served as co-editor of Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts (along with Alfred Kreymborg
Alfred Kreymborg
Alfred Francis Kreymborg was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist.-Early life and associations:...
). He was the cousin of Peggy Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim
Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim was an American art collector. Born to a wealthy New York City family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912 and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who would establish the Solomon R...
. He had an affair with Kathleen Eaton Cannell
Kathleen Eaton Cannell
Kathleen Eaton Cannell was a Paris-based American dance and fashion correspondent for major U.S. papers and periodicals. Before moving to Paris she was the dance critic for The Christian Science Monitor...
as well as with Duff, Lady Twysden. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
used him as the model for the literary dabbler Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received...
, with Twysden being the model for Brett Ashley.
His novel, The Professors Like Vodka, was published in 1927, and reissued in paperback (with a new afterword by the author) in 1974. Loeb published a memoir in 1959 titled The Way it Was: A Memoir. Loeb also wrote the book, Life in a Technocracy: What it Might be Like .
He was married to Marjorie Content with whom he had two children.
Sources
- Mary V Dearborn, Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim, Houghton Mifflin Books, 2004. ISBN 0-618-12806-9 (p. 49)