Eugene Jolas (1894-1952) was a writer, translator and literary critic.

He was born in Union City, New Jersey, but grew up in Lorraine in France to which his family returned when he was two years old. He spent periods of his adult life living in both the USA and France, but wrote mostly in English.

Along with his wife Maria McDonald and Elliot Paul, in 1927 he founded the influential Parisian literary magazine, Transition.

Works

• Secession in Astropolis (1929)
• I Have Seen Monsters and Angels
• An essay on James Joyce in Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929), a collection on Joyce that also included contributions from Robert McAlmon, William Carlos Williams and Samuel Beckett.

External links

• Brief biography
• A more extensive biography

American literary critics | American translators | Magazine publishers (people) | People from New Jersey | 1894 births | 1952 deaths