Nathanael West
Nathanael West, born Nathan Weinstein , was an American author, screenwriter and satirist.
Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in New York City, the first child of Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Anuta and Max Weinstein , from Kovno, Russia , who maintained an upper middle class household in a Jewish neighborhood on the Upper West Side. West displayed little ambition in academics, dropping out of high school and only gaining admission into Tufts College by forging his high school transcript.
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