Harold Loeb

In 1921 he was the founding editor of Broom, an international literary and art magazine, which was first published in New York City before he moved the venture to Europe.

After earning his degree, he moved to Empress, Alberta, Canada, working on a ranch and later laying concrete for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

[3] The next year, Loeb moved to San Francisco, where he worked for the Guggenheims as a purchaser for the American Smelting and Refining Company.

While working at the Sunwise Turn, he met several young writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Vail, and Malcolm Cowley.

Loeb sold his share of the Sunwise Turn bookstore and moved to Rome to begin publication of the magazine in Europe.

[5] After this, Loeb began publishing more American writers, including John Dos Passos, Laurence Vail, E. E. Cummings, Gorham Munson, Robert Coates and Matthew Josephson.

While in Paris, Loeb spent time with numerous American expatriates, writers and artists, including Ernest Hemingway.

Hemingway later used them as inspiration for the characters Robert Cohn and Lady Brett Ashley, respectively, in his roman à clef, The Sun Also Rises.