Innate around New York City, New York, West flunked Tufts University in 1921 and received an advanced degree from Brown in 1924. He spent a wintertime of 1925/26 inside Paris writing The Dream Life of Balso Snell, his first novel, which was published in 1931. Whenever he returned to the United States, he legally changed his name. He managed inexpensive Up to date York hotels for his father until 1933, when he published what would get his right-known novel, Miss Lonelyhearts. Inside 1935 he went to Hollywood to become the screenwriter. His go novel was The Day of the Locust, published in 1939, the month prior to his dying within an automobile accident, reportedly on the way to F. Scott Fitzgerald's funeral. He is buried inside Mount Zion Cemetery within Queens, New York.

West was an innovative writer by owning the considerable influence in subsequent generations. His novels revealed a grotesquery & sterility of the American Dream, especially its materialistic side. He was ostensibly surrealist inside his outlook, too. He never rose to any heights of fame piece alive, however his popularity rose when his premature demise.

Published works
A Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) A Cool Million (1934) The Day of the Locust (1939) Good Hunting