Harold Loeb

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Harold Albert Loeb (1891–1974) was an American figure active in the arts in Paris in the 1920's. Loeb attended Princeton University where he boxed. Loeb served in World War I and after the War was Ernest Hemingway's sparring partner. Loeb served as co-editor of Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts (along with Alfred Kreymborg)[1].He was the cousin of Peggy Guggenheim. He had an affair with Kathleen Eaton Cannell as well as with Lady Duff Twysden. Ernest Hemingway used him as the model for the literary dabbler Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises, with Twysden being the model for Lady Brett Ashley. Loeb published a memoir in 1959 titled The Way it Was: A Memoir.

He was married to Marjorie Content with whom he had two children.[1]

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  1. ^ Periodicals
  1. ^  Benita Eisler, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance, Doubleday, 1991. ISBN 0-14-017094-4, page 439.

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  • Mary V Dearborn, Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim, Houghton Mifflin Books, 2004. ISBN 0-618-12806-9 (p.49)

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