Paris and Later Life
While in Paris, Loeb spent time with Ernest Hemingway, who used him as the model for Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises. In the same novel, Hemingway’s character Brett Ashley was modeled after Loeb’s mistress, Duff Twysden. In his memoir, Loeb also tells of boxing and attending bullfights with Hemingway. Before eventually returning to New York in 1929, Loeb published his first book, Doodab (1925) and The Professors Like Vodka (1927). Loeb would also go on to publish his third novel Tumbling Mustard in 1929, and later a memoir, entitled The Way it Was (1959). Loeb was married and divorced three more times after his first wife Marjorie, and had affairs with Kathleen Eaton Cannell and Duff, Lady Twysden. Harold A. Loeb died in Marrakesh in 1974.
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