# Arthur Moss > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arthur_Moss > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arthur_Moss.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Moss > Source revision: 1315452097 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Greenwich_Village), [New York City](/source/New_York_City), U.S. | death_date = February 20, {{death year and age|1969|1889}} | death_place = [Neuilly-sur-Marne](/source/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](/source/Greenwich_Village) – February 20, 1969 in [Neuilly-sur-Marne](/source/Neuilly-sur-Marne)) was an American [expatriate](/source/expatriate) [poet](/source/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](/source/Cornell_University) for three years, but dropped out. ==''The Quill''== In 1917, he returned to Greenwich Village, founding ''The Quill'' with partner [Harold Hersey](/source/Harold_Hersey) and was managing editor and wrote articles. It included artists [Clara Tice](/source/Clara_Tice), [Wood Gaylor](/source/Wood_Gaylor), [Mark Tobey](/source/Mark_Tobey) and [Alfred J Frueh](/source/Alfred_Frueh); writers included [Ben De Casseres](/source/Ben_De_Casseres). He married [Millia Davenport](/source/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''.{{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 }} In 1920, he hired his future wife [Florence Gilliam](/source/Florence_Gilliam) to edit ''Quill''. In 1921 they moved to Paris, into a small apartment near [Shakespeare and Company](/source/Shakespeare_and_Company_(1919%E2%80%931941)), the bookstore owned by [Sylvia Beach](/source/Sylvia_Beach). ==''Gargoyle''== In August 1921, they began publishing ''Gargoyle'', an intense literary magazine. ''Gargoyle'' published reproductions of [Henri Matisse](/source/Henri_Matisse), [Pablo Picasso](/source/Pablo_Picasso), [André Derain](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Derain), [Amedeo Modigliani](/source/Amedeo_Modigliani), [Paul Cézanne](/source/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne). Writers contributing to the publication included [Ezra Pound](/source/Ezra_Pound), [Robert Coates](/source/Robert_Coates_(critic)), [Malcolm Cowley](/source/Malcolm_Cowley), [Hart Crane](/source/Hart_Crane), [Stephen Vincent Benét](/source/Stephen_Vincent_Ben%C3%A9t), [H.D.](/source/H.D.), [Edna St. Vincent Millay](/source/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay),{{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}} [Sinclair Lewis](/source/Sinclair_Lewis) and [Cuthbert Wright](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times)'' and the [''Paris Herald''](/source/International_Herald_Tribune). ===Hemingway=== [Ernest Hemingway](/source/Ernest_Hemingway) and his wife moved to Paris in December 1921. He loved books and frequented [Shakespeare and Company](/source/Shakespeare_and_Company_(1919%E2%80%931941)) where he met Moss, who convinced Hemingway to submit articles to ''Gargoyle''. These early writings drew the attention of [Robert McAlmon](/source/Robert_McAlmon). The original writings are now in the [JFK Library](/source/JFK_Library).{{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 }} ==''Boulevardier''== In 1927 Arthur began publishing ''Boulevardier'' with [Erskine Gwynne](/source/Erskine_Gwynne). Patterned after ''The New Yorker'', one of the regular illustrators was [Raymond Peynet](/source/Raymond_Peynet). Contributors included [Michael Arlen](/source/Michael_Arlen), [Noël Coward](/source/No%C3%ABl_Coward), [Louis Bromfield](/source/Louis_Bromfield), [Sinclair Lewis](/source/Sinclair_Lewis) and [Ernest Hemingway](/source/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] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Moss, Author}} Category:1889 births Category:1969 deaths Category:American male poets Category:American expatriates in France Category:American magazine editors Category:Cornell University alumni Category:20th-century American poets Category:20th-century American male writers Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers Category:American male non-fiction writers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Arthur Moss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Moss) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Moss?action=history)). 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