Filter: 20th century literature (35 people)

Corrado Alvaro

Corrado Alvaro
Alfred Andersch

Alfred Andersch
Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson
Wayne Andrews

Wayne Andrews

Berthold Biermann

R. P. Blackmur
Kay Boyle

Kay Boyle
Frederick Busch

Frederick Busch
Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary
Michal Choromanski

Michal Choromanski
Inger Christensen

Inger Christensen
Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot
William Empson

William Empson
Henry Green

Henry Green
John Hawkes

John Hawkes
Gert Hofmann

Gert Hofmann
James Joyce

James Joyce
James Laughlin

James Laughlin
Enrique Lihn

Enrique Lihn
Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov
Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda
Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak
Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz
Saint John Perse

Saint John Perse
Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound
Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa
John Ransom

John Ransom
Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre
Jules Supervielle

Jules Supervielle

Merlin Thomas
Elio Vittorini

Elio Vittorini

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."