Cowley, Malcolm (1898-1989). American editor, critic, and anthologist. Cowley grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. He enrolled at Harvard University in 1915 but withdrew to drive munitions trucks for the American Field Service in France during World War I. He graduated from Harvard in 1920 and moved to France on a fellowship in 1921, becoming part of the “Lost Generation” of American writers and artists in Paris and writing about them in Exile’s Return (1934). Cowley returned to America in 1923, became active in left-wing politics, and became influential on the literary scene as assistant editor of the New Republic from 1929 to 1944. In December 1925, he interviewed Cather Cather to write an essay for Brentano’s Book Chat.