Toklas, Ford Madox Ford, Frank Harris, Lord Alfred Douglas and others. In it, he describes meeting various celebrities who were living in or passing through Paris at the time, such as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. The book is presented as a genuine memoir, although Glassco had lightly fictionalized some aspects of the work. Their three-year stay formed the basis of Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse (1970), a description of expatriate life in Paris during the 1920s. The two settled in the Montparnasse district of Paris which was then extremely popular amongst the literary intelligentsia. Glassco left McGill without graduating to go to Paris with his friend, Graeme Taylor, when he was 17 years old. Glassco wrote for the McGill Fortnightly Review with Scott, Smith, and Leon Edel.

At McGill he moved on the fringes of the Montreal Group of poets centred on that campus, which included F. According to Stephen Scobie, 'Glassco will be remembered for his brilliant autobiography, his elegant, classical poems, and for his translations.' He is also remembered by some for his erotica.īorn in Montreal to a monied family, John Glassco (Buffy to his friends) was educated at Selwyn House School, Bishop's College School, Lower Canada College, and finally McGill University. John Glassco (Decem– January 29, 1981) was a Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist. Memoirs of Montparnasse, Selected Poems (1971)

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