Toklas introduced Shattuck to the authors Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) and Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), and the painters Francis Bacon, Georges Braque and, important for Shattuck's later book, Picasso's first mistress, Fernande Olivier (1880/81-1966). Toklas (1877-1967), the partner of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and literary salon sponsor. He took a job at UNESCO in Paris as an information officer in film section and then as the Paris reporter for the Chicago Daily News in Paris, 1948-1949. in 1947, the highest academic degree he ever achieved. After the war, he returned to Yale, becoming editor of Yale Review, and graduating with a B.A. His B-25 flew over Hiroshima shortly the atomic bomb drop. Shattuck enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1942, qualifying as a pilot in a combat cargo squadron in the Pacific Theater. Shortly before World War II he entered Yale University, but his attempts at pre-medicine classes failed. He was raised on the East Side of Manhattan graduating from St. Shattuck, a prosperous medical doctor, and Elizabeth Colt (Shattuck). Literary critic and Romance Languages professor interested in French avant-garde artists.
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