Cozzens, James Gould
Cozzens, James Gould( 1903–78),born in Chicago but reared on Staten Island and educated at Harvard (1922–24), where he wrote his first novel, Confusion (1924), the story of an aristocratic, rebellious French girl. Leaving college to become a tutor in Cuba, he wrote Michael Scarlett (1925), a historical romance, and gathered background for Cock Pit (1928), set on a Cuban sugar plantation, and The Son of Perdition (1929), about a despotic American company official in Cuba. His more mature work begins with the novelette S.S. San Pedro (1931), based on the mysterious sinking of the Vestris, followed by The Last Adam (1933), published in England as A Cure of Flesh, introducing a representative Cozzens figure and setting in the story of a crusty, heterodox doctor in a rigid Connecticut town. Castaway (1934) is an atypical fantasy, presenting, with seeming realism, New York after a...
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