Bravig Imbs
Bravig Imbs was an American novelist and poet as well as a broadcaster and newspaperman.
Biography
Bravig Imbs was born in 1904 in Milwaukee to Norwegian-American parents. A graduate of Dartmouth College,[1] he worked as a newspaper reporter, and music critic and, according to some, a proofreader for the 'International Edition of the Chicago Tribune in Paris.[2]
In Paris he befriended George Antheil, Pavel Tchelitchew, René Crevel, Georges Maratier, and later Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.[2] [3] In 1931, his wife Valeska gave birth to a child, and Gertrude Stein ended their friendship because of her aversion to childbirth.[2]
He wrote novels, poems and a memoir, and played the harpsichord.[4][5] He translated some poems by Georges Hugnet.[6] He also co-wrote books with Bernard Fay and André Breton. He chronicled his life in Paris in the 1920s in his Confessions of Another Young Man, published in 1936.[7]
In 1944, he worked as a radio announcer, under the pseudonym of 'Monsieur Bobby'.[3] He worked for the US State Department as a radio announcer for the O.I.C. in France after the war. He died there in a jeep accident travelling on official business near Livron-sur-Drome, on May 29, 1946, and was interred in a US military cemetery in Draguignan, France.[8][9][10][11]
Bibliography
- The Professor's Wife
- Eden—Exit this Way, and Other Poems (1926)
- Bernard Faÿ's Franklin: The Apostle of Modern Times (co-written with Bernard Fay; 1929)
- Confessions of Another Young Man (1936)
- Yves Tanguy (co-written with André Breton; 1946)
- The Wind was There (This poem by Bravig Imbs has been set to music for high voice and orchestra by composer Michael B. Matthews [1982]; and has also been set to music by Mark Winges as "Image and Motion: A Choral Symphony" [2001])
References
- ^ John Malcolm Brinnin, The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World, P. Smith, 1968, p. 279 [1]
- ^ a b c Linda Simon, The Biography of Alice B. Toklas, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 168-170 [2]
- ^ a b Linda Simon, The Biography of Alice B. Toklas, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 117-118 [3]
- ^ Bravig Imbs, 'Poem', in Pagany, Richard Johns (ed.), Kraus Reprint Corp., 1931, p. 92 [4]
- ^ James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company, Henry Holt and Co., 2003, p. 323
- ^ Ulla E. Dydo, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises - 1923-1934 (Avant-garde and Modernism Studies), Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2003, p. 321 [5]
- ^ Imbs, Bravig (1936). Confessions of Another Young Man. Paris: Henkle-Yewdale House.
- ^ "New York Broadcaster Killed in Crash in France". The New York Times. 31 May 1946.
- ^ "Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974 for Bravig Wilbur Eugene Imbs. death reports in State Dept Decimal File, 1910 to 1962. Box 1713: 1945-1949". ancestry.com. NARA.
{{cite web}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Bravig W. E. Imbs - American Battle Monuments Commission". www.abmc.gov. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ "Bravig Wilbur Eugene Imbs (1904-1946) - French A Grave Memorial". Find A Grave. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
