Malcolm Cowley was a literary critic, historian, editor, poet and essayist best known for being the most trenchant chronicler of the so-called Lost Generation of post-World War I writers. An editor of The New Republic and Viking Press, Cowley is credited with discovering the writers John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, and Ken Kesey, as well as renewing public interest in the works of William Faulkner. (NY Times) More about this author >