Ariadne

"Isadore Lhevinne (1896-1935) is an enigmatic figure-a brilliant Jewish American modernist writer of the 1920s/30s who is so largely unknown that when I canvassed my fellow writers, none of them knew his work or even his name. Not that he was immensely well known in his lifetime-a somewhat (though not completely) isolated writer, he seems to have had no contact with the more significant and/or prominent modernist figures of the day, such as e e cummings, Marsden Hartley, Hart Crane, Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer or Kenneth Burke. Also, until recently biographical information was extremely scarce, and there are still gaps in our knowledge of his life. For someone with such extraordinary talent, he's slipped into totally undeserved semi-oblivion"--