Arthur Moss
1889 - 1969
Author, Editor, Publisher, Journalist
Promoter of the Arts

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Resources for Our Biography
Hemingway: Scenes With a Hero by Kathleen Cannell, Oct. 1968
Lost Generation Journal; Florence Gilliam, fall 1974, pp. 10-13, 32-33
The Paris Herald, Al Laney, 1947
The Double Dealer by Julius Weis Friend, 1966
The Improper Bohemian: A Re-Creation of Greenwich Village, by Allen Churchill, 1959
Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, by Lynn Garafola, 1998
Tribune: The Old Bohemian, by Daniel George, 2000
The Women of Montparnasse, Morrill Cody, Hugh D. Ford,1984
Walks in Gertrude Stein's Paris: 5 Tours for the Literary Traveller,by Mary Ellen Jordan Haight, 1988
Walks in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler, Noel Riley Fitch, 1992
Hemingway: An Old Friend Remembers, Jed Kiley, 1965
Greenwich Village, Anna Alice Chapin, 1917(p287)
Life Among the Surrealists: A Memoir, Mathew Josephson, 1962(p100)
Hemingway: A Biography, Jeffrey Myers, 1985/1999 (p158)
Ernest Hemingway and the Little Magazines: The Paris Years, Nicholas Joost,1968(p17)
Hemingway's Nonfiction, Robert D Stephens(Univ of North Carolina,1968)
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, Carlos Baker(Shribner,1969)
Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, Mathew Joseph Brucolli,1974
Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Biography, Hanneman,Princeton Univ Press,1967
The View From Here, Robert M Coates, 1960(p210)
Published in Paris: American and British Writers,Printers and Publishers,Hugh D Ford(p78
News of Paris: American Journal in the City of Lights Between the Wars, Ronald Weber, 2006 (p.212)
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, Noel Riley Fitch
Women of the Left Bank, Shari Benstock,University of Texas Press,1987
Paris Thats Not In Guide Books, Basil Wood,1931(p269)
Literary Digest, Edward Jewitt Wheeler(Funk and Wagnall,1923) vol78,p26
Conversation With Malcolm Cowley, Malcolm Cowley, 1986
Book Review Digest, Martha T Mooney(H W Wilson, 2005)
Opera News (Metropolitan Opera Guild) 1948(p18), 1956(p37)
Sewanee Review , University of the South, 1933 (p210)
Forum, Events Publication Co.,1947(p168)
Scoot Fitzgerald, Andrew Turnbull, Grove Press(2001)
Portrait of Hemingway, BBC Archives, 1961
Uneasy Alliance, Hans Bak, Radopi Pub., 2004
Weekly Record, University of Michigan, Bowker, 1974
Writers at Work: Paris Review Interviews, George Plimpton, 1986
The Penguin Companion to American Literature, Malcolm Bradbury, 1971
The Dream of the Golden Mountain, Malcolm Cowley, 1980
The Mask: The Journey of the American Theatre, Edward Gordon Craig, 1925
Hart Crane, Life of an American Poet, Philip Horton, 1957
Notable Women in American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary, Alice M Robinson, 1989
Paris Journal, Janet Flanner, 1965
Back to Montparnasse, Sissley Huddleston, 1931
Pulpwood Editor, Harold Brainerd Hersey, Frederick A Stokes & Co., 1937
Dictionary of Literary Biography Document Series: Paris in the Twenties, Mathew Joseph Brucolli,1997(p262)
Dance: Current Selected research, Lynette Y Overby,1989(p28)
Cyclopedia of World Authors, Frank Northen Magill, 1997(p1467)
My Life as an Author and Editor, Henry Louis Mencken(Knopf, 1993)
Harry Kemp, The Last Bohemian, Will Brevda (Buchnell Univ1986)
The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924, by Jean Toomer, Mark Whalan, 2006
Dusk of Empire: The Decline of Europe and the Rise of the U.S., Wythe Williams, 1937
Pilgrimage To Paris: The Backgrounds of American Expatriation,1920-34,Warren Susman,'58
The Avenel Companion to English and American Literature, David Daiches(1981,p153)
Paris Captured by Greenwich Village, Benjamin De Casseres( NY Times,Oct16,1921)
From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France 1840-1980,Michael Fabre,1993
American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Critisism and Bibliography, Craig Monk, Ohio State University Press, vol.17,#1- 2007
Studies in Bibliography- University of Virginia Bibliography Society, Fredson Bowers, Project Muse - 1964 ( University of California )
The American Review, Hairenik Assn, 1993
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors ( Thomas Gale,2002)
Cold Springs Harbor and Library Archives - Charles B. Davenport Collection
Arthur Moss, 80, Expatriate Writer, New York Times, Feb. 22, 1969 (ob)
Other Scources For Information:
Gale Literary Database For Contemporary Authors (2/14/2000)
Library of Congress Catalog, 1987
The Smithsonian Instute, Alfred J Frueh Collection
University of Texas, Ransom Center, Special Collections
New York Times Archives, for which we are extremely grateful.
A very special 'merci beaucoup' to The National Archives of France for providing the following:
Click to Read: Paris Captured by Greenwich Villageby Casseres
NEW YORK TIMES Oct. 16, 1921
Lost Generation Store
Florence Gilliam...
...was hired by Arthur Moss to be senior editor for Quill in 1920. Quill was a literary and arts magazine in Greenwich Village,NY. In 1921 the pair moved to Paris where they began publication of Gargoyle and Boulevardier. Florence was a journalist and theatre critic. Moss and Gilliam divorced in 1931. Gilliam wrote France: A Tribute by an American Woman (Dutton, NY,1945)
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