ABSTRACT
Josephson (1899-1978) was one of the American literary ‘expatriates’ in Paris during the 1920s. He first achieved prominence with the publication of Zola and His Time. He went on to write Portrait of the Artist as American(1930), The Robber Barons (1934), and biographies of Rousseau and Stendhal. Josephson apologized to Dos Passos for the ‘hatchet job’ Henry Seidel Canby, editor at Saturday Review, had performed on his review of 1919. Canby had cut the central part of the review in which Josephson had sided with Dos Passos's angry revolt against the bourgeoisie (Carr, Dos Passos: ALife, 297).
