Works by
Nathanael West
(Aka Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein)
(Screenwriter, Writer)
[October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940]

Fiction

• The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931)

• Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)

• A Cool Million (1934)

• The Day of the Locust (1939)

Plays

• Plays

• Good Hunting (1938)

• Even Stephen

• Follow Your Heart (1936)

• The President's Mystery (1936)

• Ticket to Paradise (1936)

• It Could Happen to You (1937)

• Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)

• Born to Be Wild (1938)

• Five Came Back (1939)

• I Stole A Million (1939)

• Let's Make Music (1940)

• Men Against the Sky (1940)

• The Spirit of Culver (1940)

• Before the Fact aka (1940) with Boris Ingster
  Also known as Suspicion.

Other

• Nathanael West, Novels and Other Writings (1997) Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed.

See also:

• Freaks In Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, And Carson Mccullers (2005) by Nancy Bombaci
  Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"-a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about "freaks" by Carson McCullers, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, and Tod Browning and subvert and reinvent modern progress narratives in order to challenge high modernist literary and social ideologies. These works are marked by an acceptance of the disteleology, anarchy, and degeneration that racist discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries associated with racial and ethnic outsiders, particularly Jews. In a period of American culture beset with increasing pressures for social and political conformity and with the threat of fascism from Europe, these late modernist narratives about "freaks" defy oppressive norms and values as they search for an anarchic and transformational creativity.