James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare.

Cabell was born into an affluent and wellconnected Virginian family, and lived most of his life in Richmond. The first Cabell settled in Virginia in 1664 Cabells paternal greatgrandfather, William H. Cabell, was Governor of the Commonwealth from 1805 to 1808. Cabell County in West Virginia is named after the Governor. James Branch Cabells grandfather, Robert Gamble Cabell, was a physician his father, Robert Gamble Cabell II , had an MD, but practiced as a druggist his mother, Anne Harris , was the daughter of Lt. Col. James R. Branch, of the Army of the Confederate States of America. James was the oldest of three boyshis brothers were Robert Gamble Cabell III and John Lottier Cabell . His parents separated and were later divorced in 1907. His aunt was the suffragist and educationist MaryCooke Branch Munford.

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