{{short description|American writer}} {{other people|Arthur Moss}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Arthur Harold Moss | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = November 1889 | birth_place = Greenwich Village, New York City, U.S. | death_date = February 20, {{death year and age|1969|1889}} | death_place = Neuilly-sur-Marne, France | resting_place = | occupation = Magazine editor | language = | education = | alma_mater = Cornell University | period = | genre = Poetry | subject = | movement = | notable_works = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }}
'''Arthur Harold Moss''' (November 1889 in Greenwich Village – February 20, 1969 in Neuilly-sur-Marne) was an American expatriate poet and magazine editor.
==Life== His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants. Arthur was inducted into the army on September 4, 1918. Arthur did not serve active duty in WW1. He served as a PVT with the QMC (Quarter Masters Corp) in Johnston Florida until he was discharged January 8, 1919. Arthur attended Cornell University for three years, but dropped out.
==''The Quill''== In 1917, he returned to Greenwich Village, founding ''The Quill'' with partner Harold Hersey and was managing editor and wrote articles. It included artists Clara Tice, Wood Gaylor, Mark Tobey and Alfred J Frueh; writers included Ben De Casseres.
He married Millia Davenport (1895–1992) and worked with her at ''The Quill''. They co-authored, ''The Quill: For And By Greenwich Village'', vol.4, no.8, 1919. They separated shortly thereafter. She went on to design costumes, and in 1948 wrote ''The Book of Costume''.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Book of Costume | publisher=Crown | orig-year=1948 | edition=reprint | date=November 13, 1964 | isbn=978-0-517-03716-4 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/bookofcostume00mill }}</ref> In 1920, he hired his future wife Florence Gilliam to edit ''Quill''. In 1921 they moved to Paris, into a small apartment near Shakespeare and Company, the bookstore owned by Sylvia Beach.
==''Gargoyle''== In August 1921, they began publishing ''Gargoyle'', an intense literary magazine. ''Gargoyle'' published reproductions of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Cézanne. Writers contributing to the publication included Ezra Pound, Robert Coates, Malcolm Cowley, Hart Crane, Stephen Vincent Benét, H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Yost|first=Karl|url=|title=A Bibliography of the Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1937|location=New York and London|pages=170}}</ref> Sinclair Lewis and Cuthbert Wright. Without outside backing and lacking a subscriber base, in October 1922, ''Gargoyle'' ceased publication. For the next few years Arthur would write a column for ''The New York Times'' and the ''Paris Herald''.
===Hemingway=== Ernest Hemingway and his wife moved to Paris in December 1921. He loved books and frequented Shakespeare and Company where he met Moss, who convinced Hemingway to submit articles to ''Gargoyle''. These early writings drew the attention of Robert McAlmon. The original writings are now in the JFK Library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Hemingway+Archive |title=Hemingway Archive |accessdate=2009-10-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907230947/http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical%2BResources/Hemingway%2BArchive/ |archivedate=2009-09-07 }}</ref>
==''Boulevardier''== In 1927 Arthur began publishing ''Boulevardier'' with Erskine Gwynne. Patterned after ''The New Yorker'', one of the regular illustrators was Raymond Peynet. Contributors included Michael Arlen, Noël Coward, Louis Bromfield, Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway.
Moss and Gilliam divorced in 1931. By 1932 he married Evalyn Marvel. He was survived by his widow Doreen Vidal.
==Works== * {{cite book| title=Slapstick and Dumbbell: A Casual Survey of Clowns and Clowning| publisher=Lawren Publishers| place=New York| year=1924| author=Hiler Harzberg, Arthur Moss}} * {{cite book| title=The Legend of the Latin Quarter: Henry Murger and the Birth of Bohemia | publisher=Beechhurst Press| year=1947| isbn=978-1-4191-3909-3 }} * {{cite book| title=Second Childhood in Villefranche| publisher=Editions de la Rade | place=Villefranche| year=1952 }} * {{cite book| title=Cancan and Barcarolle: The Life and Times of Jacques Offenbach | publisher=Exposition Press| year=1954 }} {{cite book| title=Facsimile Edition | publisher=Greenwood Press| date=March 1976| isbn=978-0-8371-8045-8 }} * {{cite book| title=Tale of Twelve Cities and Other Poems| publisher=Two Cities Editions| place=Paris| year=1963 }} * {{cite book| title=One More River and Other Poems | publisher=A.H.Stockwell| year=1967 }}
===Non-fiction=== *[http://www.thenation.com/doc/19230613/moss_gilliam "The Turkish Myth", ''The Nation'', Arthur Moss & Florence Gilliam, June 23, 1923]
===Editor=== *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o22xz6C4EqcC&q=Arthur+Moss+poet| title=Greenwich Village anthology of verse: being a compilation of poetry from the pages of the first year's issues of ''The Quill'', a magazine of Greenwich Village| editor=Arthur H. Moss| publisher=Moss| year=1918 }}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.arthurmoss.com/ "Author Moss", ''The Lost Generation''] *[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2009. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009]
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