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The Vanguard Press (1926–1988) was a United States publishing house established with a $100,000 grant from the
left wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...
American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund. Throughout the 1920s, Vanguard Press issued an array of books on radical topics, including studies of the Soviet Union,
socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...
theory, and politically oriented fiction by a range of writers. The press ultimately received a total of $155,000 from the Garland Fund, which separated itself and turned the press over to its publisher, James Henle. Henle became sole owner in February 1932."Book Notes," ''
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'', February 16, 1932
Eschewing radical politics after 1929, the Vanguard Press operated as a respected independent literary house for 62 years. Its catalog of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and children's literature included the first books of
Nelson Algren Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel ''The Man with the Golden Arm'' won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name. Algren articulated ...
,
Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 July 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only wr ...
,
Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his ...
,
Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...
and
Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel (;"Seuss"
'' backlist A backlist is a list of older books available from a publisher. This is opposed to newly-published titles, which is sometimes known as the frontlist. Business Building a strong backlist has traditionally been considered the best method to produ ...
of 500 titles, the company was sold to
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in October 1988.McDowell, Edwin
"Vanguard Will Merge with Random House"
''
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'', October 25, 1988
In his history of book publishing, ''Between Covers'' (1987), John Tebbel wrote, "Vanguard never became a large and important house, but it continued to publish quality books year after year."


Institutional history


Establishment

The May 1926 meeting of the directors of the American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund, allocated $100,000 to establish the Vanguard Press.Gloria Garrett Samson, ''The American Fund for Public Service: Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy, 1922-1941.'' Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996; pg. 167. The new publisher was intended to reissue left-wing classics at an affordable cost and to provide an outlet for the publication of new titles otherwise deemed "unpublishable" by the commercial press of the day. The initial officers and directors of the new publishing house included Jacob Baker, Roger Baldwin,
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (August 7, 1890 – September 5, 1964) was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union ...
, Clinton Golden, Louis Kopelin, Bertha Mailly,
Scott Nearing Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living. Biography Early years Nearing was born in Morris Run, Tioga County, ...
and
Rex Stout Rex Todhunter Stout (; December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and ...
. Stout accepted the post of president and held it until 1928, when the Garland Fund ended its subsidy and James Henle became president. The Vanguard Press emulated the Little Leather Library, the first company to mass-market inexpensive books in the United States, and the
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s of
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (''né'' Emanuel Julius) (July 30, 1889 – July 31, 1951) was a Jewish-American socialist writer, atheist thinker, social reformer and publisher. He is best remembered as the head of Haldeman-Julius Publications, the crea ...
. Vanguard depicted itself in promotional advertising as "destined to be the
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of Book Publishing" through its inexpensive offerings of "all the grand old idol breakers."Samson, ''The American Fund for Public Service'', pg. 168. In June 1926, the new publisher made an offer to sundry "labor and liberal organizations", offering to finance half the cost of publishing any book of "permanent educational value", whether it be an original manuscript or a reprint of an existing title. Vanguard Press would print a run of 2,000 copies, with the issuing organization paying for only 1,000 at 25 cents a copy, leaving Vanguard to sell the other 1,000. Vanguard raised its prices over time but still remained an economical source of
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books. By 1928 the standard price for Vanguard titles, such as the books of the series entitled "Studies of Soviet Russia" and "Current Questions", was 75 cents per copy. The series on "American Imperialism" edited by
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and launched in 1928 bore a cover price of $1.00 per copy. In 1927 Vanguard published a collection of H.G. Wells's writings (''Wells' Social Anticipations''), edited by
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. Vanguard also published the 1927 edition of the ''American Labor Year Book'' on behalf of the
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-affiliated
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, which sold for $1.50. The Garland Fund ultimately supported Vanguard Press to the extent of $155,000. The publishing house of Macy-Masius was merged into the Vanguard Press in June 1928. For a short time the company operated under the joint direction of
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, president of Macy-Masius, and Jacob Baker, Vanguard's managing director. With the onset of the
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after 1929, Vanguard Press steadily moved away from radical political publications and toward more mainstream
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titles as well as apolitical titles of topical interest, such as studies of
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and
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. Vanguard maintained its offices on Fifth Avenue in New York City, initially occupying space at 80 Fifth Avenue before moving to 100 Fifth Avenue in 1928. In the mid-1930s the firm moved to a new building in New York City, located at 424 Madison Avenue.


Sale to James Henle

In February 1932, James Henle, president of Vanguard Press for three years, became sole owner of the publishing house. A former labor reporter for the ''
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'', Henle signed a number of muckraking journalists. One of Vanguard's greatest successes was ''
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'' (1933), an exposé about dangerous consumer products written by Arthur Kallet, who three years later would found the
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and ''
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'' magazine. It was followed by a sequel nearly as successful called 'Counterfeit', in which the author called for the end of production for profit, and identified himself as a
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. Among many novels of social realism, Vanguard published more than 30 books by
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. Those comprising his
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trilogy (collected in a single volume in 1935) and Donald Henderson Clarke's ''
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'' (1933) were the subject of bitter court fights on obscenity charges. "Vanguard was singled out in the censorship controversies," wrote media historian John Tebbel, "not only because it published ''Our Fair City'', edited by Robert Allen, a collection of essays demonstrating that civic corruption had not changed since the days of
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, but because it had issued
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's ''End as a Man'', an indictment of military school life, and James Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy. Vanguard was also under investigation by the
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on the ground that in the twenties and thirties it had published some books by Communist and left-wing writers. HUAC later apologized for the investigation." It was discovered that Vanguard had purged communists from the organization in the late 1940s, including founder Arthur Kallet. The Vanguard Press earned a reputation for publishing promising new fiction, poetry, literature for children and young adults, and non-fiction. Vanguard published the first two books of
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, and the first books of
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,
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and
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. It published ''
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'' (1955), a comic novel rejected by a dozen publishers before it became a runaway bestseller. Vanguard published
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's ''
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'' (1954) and ''
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'' (1963). It published
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' first book, and 20 more — including her novel, ''
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'', winner of the
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in 1970. Evelyn Shrifte, an editor who had joined the Vanguard Press in the early 1930s, became its president in 1952. She was one of the first women to head a book publishing company.


Sale to Random House

Evelyn Shrifte had been president of the Vanguard Press for 36 years when, in October 1988, the company was sold to
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. She told ''
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'' that the sale of the 62-year-old independent publishing house was prompted by the poor health of some of Vanguard's investors. The valuable 500-title
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of the Vanguard Press was merged into that of Random House, although for 10 years they were to be identified on the title page as Vanguard Press books. "Random House will take good care of our books and authors," Shrifte said. "But it's as if all my children were being sent to a foster home. I'm trying not to cry while I break the news to our authors." The archives of the Vanguard Press from its conceptual origins in 1925 through approximately 1985, including over 129,000 documents, was donated by Random House to
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in New York City in 1989. Evelyn Shrifte's papers are in the collection of
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.


Vanguard Publishing

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and
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.


Perseus Book Group

An unrelated imprint, Vanguard Press, was established in 2007 by publisher Roger Cooper. The new Vanguard Pres

is an imprint of
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.


Authors

Authors' names are followed by their known dates of association with the Vanguard Press. * Karin Abarbanel (1975) * Leonard D. Abbott (1926) * Raymond H. Abbott (1986) * Mena Abdullah (1983) * P. B. Abercrombie (1946) *
Frank Adams John Frank Adams (5 November 1930 – 7 January 1989) was a British mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory. Life He was born in Woolwich, a suburb in south-east London, and attended Bedford School. He began researc ...
(1952) *
Jean Adhémar Jean Adhémar (18 March 1908 – 30 June 1987) was a French librarian, academic, and art historian. He was born in Paris, France. Adhémar was Curator of the "Cabinet Des Estampes (prints)" at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France from 1932 to ...
(1955) * J. Bentley Aistrop (1955–1961) * Elizabeth Perkins Aldrich (1942) *
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(1935) *
Mabel Esther Allan Mabel Esther Allan (11 February 1915 – 14 May 1998) was a British author of about 170 children's books. Biography Mabel Esther Allan was born at Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula, then in Cheshire (now Merseyside). She decided to be ...
(1952–1974) * Robert S. Allen (1947–1950) * E. M. Almedingen (1964–1974) * Gulielma Fell Alsop (1941–1947) * Ian Andersen (1976–1978) * Madelyn Klein Anderson (1983) *
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(1931) * Raymond Andrieux (1943–1945) * Samuel Antek (1963) * Sebastian Juan Arbo (1955) * R. Page Arnot (1927) * Claude Arthaud (1956) * Nancy Asbaugh (1971) *
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(1928) * Edith Lesser Atkin (1976) *
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(1945–1975) * Vickey Aubrey (1982) * Michel Audrain (1955) * Leonora Baccante (1931) * Walter Bacon (1941–1961) *
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(1947–1974) * Jacob Baker (1937) * Nancy C. Baker (1978–1980) * Nina Brown Baker (1941–1948) *
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(1927) * Evelyn I. Banning (1965–1973) * Jane R. Barkley (1958) * Nigel Barley (1984) *
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(1929) *
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(1927) *
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(1944–1947) * Marion Benasutti (1966) * M. J. Benadette (1937) * Lowell Bennett (1943–1945) *
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(1931–1932) * Ruth Berggren (1987) * Alexander Berkman (1929) * M. Bevan-Brown (1950) * F. Russell Bichowsky (1935) *
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(1930) *
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(1928) * Charles Blackburn (1980) * John Haldane Blackie (1927) *
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(1927) * Godfrey Blunden (1956–1968) * Sam Boal (1954) * R. S. Boggs (1960) *
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(1927) *
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(1955–1961) *
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(1931) *
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(1936) *
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(1984–1986) * Howard Brubaker (1932) * Matthew J. Bruccoli (1974) * Matt Bryant (1954) * Lamont Buchanan (1951–1952) * Samuel Buchler (1933) *
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(1926) *
Edward Carpenter Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rightsWarren Allen Smith: ''Who's Who in Hell, A Handbook and International Directory for Human ...
(1928) * Helene Carter (1949) *
Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. She was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gend ...
(1960) * Frances Cavanah (1961-1965) * Cam Cavanaugh (1978) *
William Henry Chamberlin William Henry Chamberlin (February 17, 1897 – September 12, 1969) was an American historian and journalist. He was the author of several books about the Cold War, communism, and foreign policy, including ''The Russian Revolution 1917-1921'' (19 ...
(1945) * Winifred L. Chappell (1927) * Virginia Chase (1971) *
Alfred Chester Alfred Chester (September 7, 1928 – August 1, 1971) was an American writer known for his provocative, experimental work, including the novels ''Jamie Is My Heart's Desire'' and ''The Exquisite Corpse'' and the short story collection ''Behold Goli ...
(1956–1957) * B. J. Chute (1986) * Donald Henderson Clarke (1929–1951) * Robert S. Close (1947) * Hannah Closs (1959-1967) * Yvonne Cloud (1934) * Frank O. Colby (1941) * Kenneth Colegrove (1944) *
McAlister Coleman McAlister Coleman (July 3, 1888 – May 18, 1950) was an American journalist, author, and political activist on behalf of socialism and organized labor. Coleman gained public notice as a leading leftist critic of the Lusk Committee of the New Yo ...
(1929) *
Groff Conklin Edward Groff Conklin (September 6, 1904 – July 19, 1968) was an American science fiction anthologist. He edited 40 anthologies of science fiction, one of mystery stories (co-edited with physician Noah Fabricant), wrote books on home improvemen ...
(1951–1955) *
Cyril Connolly Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine ''Horizon'' (1940–49) and wrote '' Enemies of Promise'' (1938), which combin ...
(1946) * Sybil Conrad (1967) * Brian Cooper (1956–1968) *
Lettice Cooper Lettice Ulpha Cooper OBE (3 September 1897 – 24 July 1994) was an English writer. Biography She began to write stories when she was seven, and studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1918. She returned home after Ox ...
(1961–1963) * Matthew H. Cooper (1984–1985) *
Frank Corsaro Frank Corsaro (December 22, 1924, New York City, New York – November 11, 2017, Suwanee, GeorgiaRobert ViagasNight of the Iguana Director Frank Corsaro Is Dead at 92/ref>) was one of America's foremost stage directors of opera and theatre. His Bro ...
(1978) * Irene E. Cory (1968) * March Cost (1939–1973) *
Malcolm Cowley Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. His best known works include his first book of poetry, ''Blue Juniata'' (1929), his lyrical memoir, ''Exile's Return ...
(1951) * Edward P. Costigan (1940) * Neil Cotten (1962) * Sheila Cousins (1938–1939) * Laurence E. Crooks (1938) * Beverly Cox (1977) * Cynthia Cox (1959) * Leslie Croxford (1974) * William Cunningham (1935-1936) * Morgan Cunnington (1932) * N. R. Danielian (1939) *
Clarence Darrow Clarence Seward Darrow (; April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. He was a leading member of t ...
(1929) * Harry Davis (1944) * Stanley L. Davis Sr. (1977) * Jean de la Brete (1958) * Josué de Castro (1970) *
Floyd Dell Floyd James Dell (June 28, 1887 – July 23, 1969) was an American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet. Dell has been called "one of the most flamboyant, versatile and influential American Men of Letters ...
(1929) * Beatrice Schenk de Reginiers (1963) * Robert De Vries (1954) * Shirley Deane (1965–1968) *
Paul Dehn Paul Edward Dehn (pronounced "Dain"; 5 November 1912 – 30 September 1976) was a British screenwriter, best known for '' Goldfinger'', '' The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'', ''Planet of the Apes'' sequels and ''Murder on the Orient Express''. ...
(1957) * William Demby (1957) *
Mary Dennett Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (April 4, 1872 – July 25, 1947) was an American women's rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate, and pioneer in the areas of birth control, sex education, and women's suffrage. She co-founded the National ...
(1930) *
Nigel Dennis Nigel Forbes Dennis (16 January 1912 – 19 July 1989) was an English writer, critic, playwright and magazine editor. Life Born at his grandfather's house in Surrey, England, Dennis was the son of Lt.-Col. Michael Frederic Beauchamp Dennis, DS ...
(1955–1974) *
Patrick Dennis Edward Everett Tanner III (18 May 1921 – 6 November 1976), known by the pseudonym Patrick Dennis, was an American author. His novel '' Auntie Mame: An irreverent escapade'' (1955) was one of the bestselling American books of the 20 ...
(1955–1956) * Ann Wisema Denzer (1961) * Roy Dickinson (1939) * Pat Diska (1954) * Ambrose Doskow (1935) * Henry Burgess Drake (1929) *
John William Draper John William Draper (May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882) was an English-born American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is credited with producing the first clear photograph of a female face (1839–40) and ...
(1926–1927) * Robert W. Dunn (1927–1950) * James Francis Dwyer (1929) * William Edge (1927) *
Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. Early life She was ...
(1950) * Herbert B. Ehrmann (1933) *
Havelock Ellis Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in ...
(1936) * Lord Elton (1961) * Anne Emery (1946-1950) * Duncan Emrich (1949-1950) *
Guy Endore Samuel Guy Endore (July 4, 1901 – February 12, 1970), born Samuel Goldstein and also known as Harry Relis, was an American novelist and screenwriter. During his career he produced a wide array of novels, screenplays, and pamphlets, both publish ...
(1934) *
Frederick Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Abraham Epstein Abraham Epstein ( he, אברהם עפשטיין; 19 December 1841 – 1918) was a Russo-Austrian rabbinical scholar born in Staro Constantinov, Volhynia. Epstein diligently studied the works of Isaac Baer Levinsohn, Nachman Krochmal, and S. D. Luz ...
(1928) * Rainer Esslen (1976) * Jean Estoril (1961) * Willie Snow Ethridge (1944–1973) * Hilary and Dik Evans (1977) *
Nat Falk Nat Falk (June 28, 1898 – September 9, 1989) was an American illustrator and cartoonist. His 1941 book ''How to Make Animated Cartoons'' was one of the first instructional books on animation in the United States, covering the work of a wide varie ...
(1933) * Rowena Farre (1942–1964) *
James T. Farrell James Thomas Farrell (February 27, 1904 – August 22, 1979) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. He is most remembered for the ''Studs Lonigan'' trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and a television series in 1979. B ...
(1930–1957) * Howard Ferguson (1966) * Frank Feuchtwanger (1954) *
Sara Bard Field Sara Bard Field (September 1, 1882 – June 15, 1974) was an American poet, suffragist, free love advocate, Georgist, and Christian socialist. She worked on successful campaigns for women's suffrage in Oregon and Nevada. Working with Alice Paul ...
(1949) * Flora Fifield (1957) * Charles G. Finney (1937) * Alan E. Fisher (1941) *
Vardis Fisher Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 – July 9, 1968) was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. After studying at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago, Fisher taught English at the Uni ...
(1939–1966) * Bertrand Flornoy (1956) * William Floyd (1930) * Jonathan Titulescu Fogarty (1950) *
Martha Foley Martha Foley (March 21, 1897 – September 5, 1977) cofounded ''Story'' magazine in 1931 with her husband Whit Burnett. She achieved some celebrity by introducing notable authors through the magazine such as J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams and ...
(1933–1934) *
Charles Henri Ford Charles Henri Ford (February 10, 1908 – September 27, 2002) was an American poet, novelist, diarist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. He published more than a dozen collections of poetry, exhibited his artwork in Europe and the Un ...
(1945) *
Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review'' were instrumental in ...
(1963) * Bertram B. Fowler (1936–1938) * Marion Denman Frankfurter (1930) * Edward Franklin (1964-1965) * Myrtle Franklin (1984) * Ellis Freeman (1940) * Joseph Freeman (1930) * Kathleen Freeman (1975) * Herbert E. French (1942–1945) * Martin Freud (1958) * Albert W. Fribourg (1934) * Elsbeth E. Fruedenthal (1940) *
Daniel Fuchs Daniel Fuchs (June 25, 1909 – July 26, 1993) was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist. Biography Daniel Fuchs was born to a Jewish family on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn whi ...
(1934–1937) * James Fuchs (1926) *
Allen Funt Allen Albert Funt (September 16, 1914 – September 5, 1999) was an American television producer, director, writer and television personality best known as the creator and host of '' Candid Camera'' from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regula ...
(1952) * Charles W. Gardner (1931) * Gilson Gardner (1932) * Roland Gant (1961–1968) *
Joseph Gantner Joseph Gantner (Baden, Canton Aargau, Switzerland 11 September 1896—Basel 7 April 1988) was a Swiss art historian. His father Alfred Gantner, a manager at Brown Boveri, and his wife Marie (née Wächter), a midwife. In 1932 Joseph Gantner marri ...
(1956–1965) *
Eve Garnett Eve Garnett (9 January 1900 – 5 April 1991) was an English writer and illustrator. She is best known for ''The Family from One End Street'', a 1937 children's novel that features a large, small-town, working-class family. Early life Garnett ...
(1937–1960) * Richard Garnett (1963–1966) * John Gee (1960) *
Theodor Geisel Theodor Seuss Geisel (;"Seuss"
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Henry George Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the eco ...
(1929) * Peter Gibbs (1956) * John Gibson (1940) * Margaret Gibson (1978–1980) * Duff Gilfond (1932–1940) * Jill Gill (1971) * Daniel Gilles (1962) * Margaret Gillett (1957–1967) * Phillip Gillon (1952) * Mary Elizabeth Given (1931) * Seon Givens (1946–1963) *
Jay Gluck Jay Fred Gluck (January 11, 1927 – December 19, 2000) was an American archaeologist and historian of Persian art and a Japanophile. Life and career Gluck was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Lillian Mary Veronica Friar (Campbell-Phil ...
(1963) *
Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...
(1951) *
Rube Goldberg Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadge ...
(1954) *
Louis Golding Louis Golding (19 November 1895 – 9 August 1958) was an English writer, very famous in his time especially for his novels, though he is now largely neglected; he wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books, and poetry. Life Bor ...
(1958) * Joseph Gollomb (1943–1949) *
Paul Goodman Paul Goodman (1911–1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decen ...
(1945–1947) * Warren Goodrich (1957) * Lev Goomilevsky (1930) * Carroll Graham (1930–1934) * Garrett Graham (1930–1944) * Kathleen B. Granger (1966) *
C. Hartley Grattan Clinton Hartley Grattan (October 19, 1902 – June 25, 1980) was an American economic analyst, historian, critic, and professor emeritus, who was considered one of the leading American authorities on 20th-century Australian history. Career Bor ...
(1929) * Genevieve Greer (1946) * Marcus Griffin (1933) * Paul Griffith (1972) *
Geoffrey Grigson Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine ''New Verse'', and went on to p ...
(1959–1969) *
Jane Grigson Jane Grigson (born Heather Mabel Jane McIntire; 13 March 1928 – 12 March 1990) was an English cookery writer. In the latter part of the 20th century she was the author of the food column for ''The Observer'' and wrote numerous books about Eu ...
(1964–1967) * Robert Gross (1979) * John Groth (1945) * Irmgard Groth-Kimball (1954) *
Ernest Gruening Ernest Henry Gruening ( ; February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Gruening was the governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from A ...
(1931) * Dorothy Guck (1968) *
Bernard Guilbert Guerney Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brave ...
(1943) *
Ernst Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new sp ...
(1926–1927) * Lynn and Dora B. Haines (1930) *
Charlotte Haldane Charlotte Haldane (; 27 April 1894 – 16 March 1969) was a British feminist writer.Elizabeth Russell, "The Loss of the Feminine Principle in Charlotte Haldane's ''Man's World'' and Katherine Burdekin's "Swastika Night" in Lucie Armitt, ''Where n ...
(1950) * T. J. Hale (1984) * Thomas J. Hamilton (1943) * Charles H. Hamlin (1927–1936) * William A. Hamm (1927) * Eric M. Hammel (1981) * Cliff Hankin (1968) * Alberta Pierson Hannum (1969) * Jack Hardy (1927) *
Allanah Harper Allanah Harper (6 November 1904 – 3 November 1992) was an English writer. She is best known for founding the journal ''Echanges'' (Exchanges), and for her 1948 autobiography. Biography Harper came from a successful family and traveled extens ...
(1976–1987) *
Reed Harris Reed Harris (November 5, 1909 – October 15, 1982) was an American writer, publisher, and U.S. government official who served as deputy director of the United States Information Agency. Biography Harris was born on November 5, 1909, in New Y ...
(1932) * Elsie Hart (1941) * Ernest H. Hart (1977) * Marion R. Hart (1938–1953)) *
Rupert Hart-Davis Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis (28 August 1907 – 8 December 1999) was an English publisher and editor. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. As a biographer, he is remembered for his ''Hugh Walpole'' (1952), as an editor, f ...
(1985) * Ilma Haskins (1973) * Frieda Hauswirth (1930–1932) * H. F. Heard (1941–1980) * John Hearne (1961) * Francois Hebert-Stevens (1956) * Julius F. Hecker (1927) * M. H. Hedges (1927) * Eugene Heimler (1949–1960) * Maurice Helbrant (1941) *
John Held, Jr. John James Held Jr. (January 10, 1889 – March 2, 1958) was an American cartoonist, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, and author. One of the best-known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, his most popular works were his uniquely styled ...
(1930–1937) *
Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fic ...
(1945–1949) * Theda O. Henle (1971) * John M. Henry (1952) * George W. Herald (1943) * Fred Herman (1943) * Garnett Hewitt (1981) * William Heyen (1974–1981) * Paul R. Heyl (1933) * Earle Hill (1972) * Howard Hillman (1975–1981) * Helen Hinckley (1946) *
Thomas Hinde Doctor Thomas Hinde (July 10, 1737 – September 28, 1828) was Northern Kentucky's first physician, a member of the British Royal Navy, an American Revolutionary, personal physician to Patrick Henry, and treated General Wolfe when he died in ...
(1964–1966) * Ira A. Hirschmann (1946) * Amy Hogeboom (1945–1956) * Elizabeth Sanxay Holding (1930) * Janice Holland (1958) * Oliver Wendell Holmes (1929) * Ralph Y. Hopton (1934) * M. A. DeWolfe Howe (1946) *
Jessie Wallace Hughan Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, a socialist activist, and a radical pacifist. During her college days she was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national fraternity for university ...
(1928) *
Rolfe Humphries George Rolfe Humphries (November 20, 1894 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 22, 1969 in Redwood City, California) was a poet, translator, and teacher. Life An alumnus of Towanda High School, Humphries graduated cum laude from Amherst Co ...
(1937) * Peter Hunt (1934) * Edward Hunter (1951) * Joan Hurling (1979–1981) *
Julian Huxley Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. ...
(1956) *
René Huyghe René Huyghe (3 May 1906 – 5 February 1997) was a French writer on the history, psychology and philosophy of art. He was also a curator at the Louvre's department of paintings (from 1930), a professor at the Collège de France and from 1960 a ...
(1956) * V. S. Ianovskii (1972) * William Inglis (1932) *
Ann Ireland Ann Ireland (1953–2018) was a Canadian fiction author who published five novels between 1985 and 2018. Her first novel, ''A Certain Mr. Takahashi'' (1985), was the winner of the Seal $50,000 1st Novel Award. She also wrote 1996's ''The Ins ...
(1986) *
Susan Isaacs Susan Isaacs (born December 7, 1943) is an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She adapted her debut novel into the film ''Compromising Positions''. Early life, family and education She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Helen Asher ...
(1938) *
Panait Istrati Panait Istrati (; sometimes rendered as ''Panaït Istrati''; August 10, 1884 – April 16, 1935) was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed ''The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans''. Istrati appears to be the ...
(1930–1931) *
Vsevolod Ivanov Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov (russian: Все́волод Вячесла́вович Ива́нов, ; , Lebyazhye, Semipalatinsk Oblast – 15 August 1963, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian writer, dramatist, journalist and war correspondent. B ...
(1935) * Gardner Jackson (1930) *
Geoffrey Jackson Sir Geoffrey Holt Seymour Jackson (4 March 1915 – 1 October 1987) was a British diplomat and writer. Background and earlier career Jackson received his education at Bolton School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Serv ...
(1974) * Robert Jackson (1976) * Bernard Jacobson (1979) * Moritz A. Jagendorf (1938–1980) * Leland H. Jenks (1928) * Chris Jenkyns (1954) * Edgar Jepson (1929) *
Eyvind Johnson Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nob ...
(1960–1971) *
Eugene Jolas John George Eugène Jolas (October 26, 1894 – May 26, 1952) was a writer, translator and literary critic. Early life John George Eugène Jolas was born October 26, 1894, in Union Hill, New Jersey (what is today Union City, New Jersey). His par ...
(1949) * Bruce E. Jones (1987) * Philip D. Jordan (1957) *
Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...
(1946) * Sholom J. Kahn (1957) * Arthur Kallet (1935) *
David Karp David Karp (born July 6, 1986) is an American webmaster, entrepreneur, and blogger, best known as the founder and former CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr. Karp began his career, without having received a high school diploma, as ...
(1953) * Lila Karp (1969) * Sara Kasdan (1957–1985) * Monica Kehoe (1957–1961) * Rick Kemmer (1975) *
Edna Kenton Edna Kenton (March 17, 1876 – February 28, 1954) was an American writer and literary critic. Kenton is best remembered for her 1928 work ''The Book of Earths,'' which collected various unusual and controversial theories about a hollow earth, Atl ...
(1954) * John Killinger (1980) *
George W. Kirchwey George Washington Kirchwey (July 3, 1855 – March 3, 1942) was an American lawyer, politician, journalist and legal scholar. He was one of the co-founders of the New York Peace Society in 1906 and the Warden of Sing Sing State Prison from 1915 ...
(1929) * Elizabeth Kirtland (1958) *
Beate Klarsfeld Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 13 February 1939) is a Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, inc ...
(1975) * George Kleinsinger (1948) * Samuel G. and Esther B. Kling (1947) * Melvin M. Knight (1928) *
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич;  – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...
(1929) * Hazel Krantz (1961–1968) *
Miroslav Krleža Miroslav Krleža (; 7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a Yugoslav and Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry (''Ba ...
(1972–1976) *
Peter Kropotkin Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (; russian: link=no, Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian, scientist, philosopher, and activis ...
(1926–1936) *
Joseph Krumgold Joseph Quincy Krumgold (April 9, 1908 – July 10, 1980) was an American writer of books and screenplays. He was the first person to win two annual Newbery Medals for the most distinguished new American children's book. Life Krumgold was born in ...
(1935) * Joseph Kloman (1934) *
Wolfgang Koeppen Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen (23 June 1906 – 15 March 1996) was a German novelist and one of the best known German authors of the postwar period. Life Koeppen was born out of wedlock in Greifswald, Pomerania, to Marie Köppen, a seamstress w ...
(1961) * Delia Kuhn (1963) * Shiv K. Kumar (1983) * Suzanne Labin (1955) *
Harry W. Laidler Harry Wellington Laidler (February 18, 1884 – July 14, 1970) was an American socialist writer, magazine editor, and politician. He is best remembered as executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy, successor to the Intercollegiate ...
(1926–1937) *
Alice Elinor Lambert Alice Elinor Lambert (1886–1981) was an American romance writer. Biography Lambert was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1886. Her father, Charles Edward Lambert, was born in Ireland in 1843. He came to the United States prior to the Civil War an ...
(1932–1933) * Richard Lannoy (1955) * Garibaldi M. Lapolla (1931) * Harold A. Larrabee (1928) * Gosta Larsson (1941) * Denise Lassimonne (1966) * Emanuel H. Lavine (1930-1936) * George Lawton (1949) * Pauline Leader (1946) * Sylvia Leao (1943) *
William Edward Hartpole Lecky William Edward Hartpole Lecky (26 March 1838 – 22 October 1903) was an Irish historian, essayist, and political theorist with Whig proclivities. His major work was an eight-volume ''History of Ireland during the Eighteenth Century''. Early ...
(1926–1927) * Jack J. Leedy (1986) * Thomas B. Leekley (1956-1965) *
John Lehmann Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (2 June 1907 – 7 April 1987) was an English poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals ''New Writing'' and ''The London Magazine'', and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. Biography Born in ...
(1970) *
Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle DStJ (; November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels: ''A Wind in the Door'', ''A Swiftly Tilting Plan ...
(1945–1968) *
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...
(1926) * Branko Lenski (1965) * Frank Leslie (1960) * Myron Levoy (1968) *
Grant Lewi William Grant Lewi II (June 8, 1902 – July 14 or 15, 1951) was an American astrologer and author. Best known for his books ''Astrology for the Millions'' and ''Heaven Knows What'', Lewi has been described as the father of modern astrology i ...
(1935) * Arthur H. Lewis (1955) * Leslie Lieber (1954) * Alfred Lief (1929-1931) *
Emanuel Litvinoff Emanuel Litvinoff (5 May 1915 – 24 September 2011) was a British writer and well-known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature, known for novels, short stories, poetry, plays and human rights campaigning. Early years Litvinoff's early years in what ...
(1959) * Robin Lloyd (1976) * Amelia Lobsenz (1951) * Edith Raymond Locke (1965) *
Robin Bruce Lockhart Robert Norman Bruce Lockhart (13 April 1920 – 20 February 2008), known as Robin, was a British journalist, stock broker, and author. Biography Bruce Lockhart was the only son of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, a British diplomat, secret agent, journalis ...
(1986) *
Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...
(1926) *
Gabrielle Lord Gabrielle Craig Lord (born 1946) is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime.Pressley, Alison (2007) "Lord and lady" in ''Good Reading Magazine'', April 2007, pp. 22–23 She has published a wide range ...
(1983) * Richard Lourie (1973) * Constance Loveland (1958) * Bruce Lowery (1961-1972) *
Mochtar Lubis Mochtar Lubis (; 7 March 1922 – 2 July 2004) was an Indonesian Batak journalist and novelist who co-founded ''Indonesia Raya'' and monthly literary magazine "Horison". His novel ''Senja di Jakarta'' (''Twilight in Jakarta'' in English) ...
(1963) * Christopher Lucas (1974) *
Ferdinand Lundberg Ferdinand Lundberg (April 30, 1902 – March 1, 1995) was an American journalist and historian known for his frequent and potent criticism of American financial and political institutions. His work has been credited as an influence on Robert Caro ...
(1937) *
Mary Lutyens Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens (pseudonym ''Esther Wyndham''; 31 July 1908 – 9 April 1999) was a British author who is principally known for her biographical works on the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. Early life Mary Lutyens was born in L ...
(1965–1967) * John Henry Lyons (1942) * Coleman McAlister (1929) * Mary Frances McBride (1941) * Neil McCallum (1951) * Josephine McCarthy (1944) * Marshall McClintock (1939–1941) *
Dwight Macdonald Dwight Macdonald (March 24, 1906 – December 19, 1982) was an American writer, editor, film critic, social critic, literary critic, philosopher, and activist. Macdonald was a member of the New York Intellectuals and editor of their leftist maga ...
(1948) * Bruce McGinnis (1979–1981) * Thomas McGrath (1960) *
Ralph McInerny Ralph Matthew McInerny (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010) was an American author and philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame. McInerny's most popular mystery novels featured Father Dowling, and was later adapted into the '' ...
(1977-1986) *
Compton Mackenzie Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish independence, Scottish nation ...
(1928) * Norman MacKenzie (1965) * Silas Bent McKinley (1941) * Jim McKone (1966–1970) *
Robin McKown Robin McKown (January 27, 1907 — August 1975) was an American writer of young adult literature, chiefly biography and fiction. During and after World War II, she was chair of an organization that helped the widows and orphans of men who had die ...
(1963) *
Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his ...
(1951) * Francis Elsmer McMahon (1945) * E. S. Madden (1961) * Leroy K. Magness (1975) * Cecil Maiden (1960–1962) *
Gladys Malvern Gladys Malvern (July 17, 1897 – November 16, 1962) was an American vaudeville and Broadway actress, radio script writer, and writer. As a child actress, she appeared in the 1908 Broadway production of ''The Man Who Stood Still''. Gladys often ...
(1964–1972) *
Seon Manley Seon Manley (January 7, 1921 – March 11, 2009), was an American editor and author who worked with her sister Gogo Lewis. She worked with the supernatural, tales of suspense, and horror as well as biographies. Biography Janet Helen Givens was ...
(1959-1986) *
Alicia Markova Dame Alicia Markova DBE (1 December 1910 – 2 December 2004) was a British ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring international ...
(1961) * Margaret Alexander Marsh (1928) * W. Lockwood Marsh (1929) * Ben Martin (1939–1940) * Ron Martin (1986) * Linda Marvin (1943) *
Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
(1926–1931) * Ray Mathew (1983) * Norman H. Matson (1930) *
Julian Mayfield Julian Hudson Mayfield (June 6, 1928 – October 20, 1984) was an American actor, director, writer, lecturer and civil rights activist. Early life Julian Hudson Mayfield was born on June 6, 1928, in Greer, South Carolina, and was raised from ...
(1957–1958) * Muriel Merkel (1985) * Edith Patterson Meyer (1974–1976) * Allan A. Michie (1939) * Jane Miller (1947) * Toni Miller (1954) * George Fort Milton (1942) * Edwin Valentine Mitchell (1946–1979) * David Molnar (1929) *
Ferenc Molnár Ferenc Molnár ( , ; born Ferenc Neumann; 12 January 18781 April 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage-director, dramatist, and poet, widely regarded as Hungary’s most celebrated and controversial playw ...
(1929) * Paolo Monelli (1954) * R. H. Montgomery (1940) * Nancy Moore (1957–1963) * Henry Morgan (1964) * Peter Morland (1928) *
William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...
(1926) * Nancy Brysson Morrison (1960–1969) * Lona Mosk (1934) * Marie Murphy Mott (1963) * A. A. Murray (1957–1959) * William Murray (1955) * Paul Myers (1986–1987) *
V. S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienati ...
(1959–1960) *
Lensey Namioka Lensey Namioka () ( or ; born June 14, 1929) is a Chinese-born American writer of books for young adults and children. She writes about China and Chinese American families, as well as Japan, her husband's native country. Early life and education ...
(1979–1986) * Kathryn Natale (1977) *
Terry Nation Terence Joseph Nation (8 August 19309 March 1997) was a British screenwriter and novelist. Especially known for his work in British television science fiction, he created the Daleks and Davros for ''Doctor Who'', as well as the series '' Survivo ...
(1977–1978) * Harry Edward Neal (1954) * Alan Neame (1961) *
Scott Nearing Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living. Biography Early years Nearing was born in Morris Run, Tioga County, ...
(1926–1932) * Richard L. Neuberger (1937) *
Martin Andersen Nexø Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the second world war moved to ...
(1938) * Aage Krarup Nielsen (1936) * Edna Nixon (1961) *
Francis Noel-Baker Francis Edward Noel-Baker (7 January 1920 – 25 September 2009) was a British Labour Party MP. His father was Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Philip Noel-Baker. Early life Born in London, Noel-Baker was educated at Westminster Scho ...
(1955) * Seiji Noma (1934) * Suzanne Normand (1929) * E. S. Northrop (1933) *
Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Bla ...
(1963–1979) * Lee Olds (1960) * Patrick O'Mara (1933) * Mark Oliver (1961) *
Franz Oppenheimer Franz Oppenheimer (March 30, 1864 – September 30, 1943) was a German Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state. Life and career After studying medicine in Freiburg and ...
(1926) * Ralph Y. Opton (1934) * Evelyn Page (1964) *
Massimo Pallottino Massimo Pallottino (9 November 1909 in Rome – 7 February 1995 in Rome) was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art. Biography Pallottino was a student of Giulio Quirino Giglioli and worked early in his career on ...
(1955) * Bissell B. Palmer (1935) * Dewey H. Palmer (1938) * E. Clephan Palmer (1954) * Rachel Lynn Palmer (1936) *
Derek Parker Derek Parker (born 1932) is a British writer and broadcaster. He is the author of numerous works on literature, ballet, and opera, and with his wife Julia of several books about astrology. Biography He was born in Looe, Cornwall, and educate ...
(1970) * Albert Parry (1976) * Catherine Owens Peare (1951–1987) * Moshe Pearlman (1964) * Roderick Peattie (1942–1952) * Kendal J. Peel (1983) *
Ralph Barton Perry Ralph Barton Perry (July 3, 1876 in Poultney, Vermont – January 22, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently ...
(1940–1944) *
Roger Peyrefitte Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ( ...
(1953) * M.C. Phillips (1934) * Robert Phillips (1967–1979) * Morris H. Philipson (1964) * Carl Pidoll (1956-1961) * F. A. Plattner (1957) * Marcel Pobé (1956) *
Léon Poliakov Léon Poliakov (russian: Лев Поляков; 25 November 1910, Saint Petersburg – 8 December 1997, Orsay) was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and antisemitism and wrote ''The Aryan Myth''. Born into a Russian Jewi ...
(1965–1986) *
Louis Freeland Post Louis Freeland Post (November 15, 1849 – January 11, 1928) was a prominent georgism, Georgist and the Assistant United States Secretary of Labor during the closing year of the Woodrow Wilson, Wilson administration, the period of the Palmer Raid ...
(1926–1930) * R. W. Postgate (1926–1936) * Harford Powel (1949) * Newman Powell (1977) *
Anthony Powell Anthony Dymoke Powell ( ; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work ''A Dance to the Music of Time'', published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English. Powell' ...
(1934) * Fred Powledge (1979) * Stanley Price (1961) *
Henry F. Pringle Henry Fowles Pringle (1897–1958) was an American historian and writer most famous for his witty but scholarly biography of Theodore Roosevelt which won the Pulitzer prize in 1932, as well as a scholarly biography of William Howard Taft. His w ...
(1928) * Eric Protter (1965–1985) * P. J. Proudhon (1927) * John Purcell (1944–1982) *
Barbara Pym Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are ''Excellent Women'' (1952) and '' A Glass of Blessings'' (1958). In 1977 ...
(1957) *
Peter Rabe Peter Rabe (born Peter Rabinowitsch, November 3, 1921 – May 20, 1990) was a German American writer who also wrote under the names Marco Malaponte and J. T. MacCargo (though not all of the latter's books were by him). Rabe was the author of ove ...
(1955) * Gerald Raftery (1964–1967) * Emily Raimondi (1974) *
Vance Randolph Vance Randolph (February 23, 1892 – November 1, 1980) was a folklorist who studied the folklore of the Ozarks in particular. He wrote a number of books on the Ozarks, as well as ''Little Blue Books'' and juvenile fiction. Early life Randolph ...
(1926–1934) * Felix Ray (1932) *
Grantly Dick-Read Grantly Dick-Read (26 January 1890 – 11 June 1959) was a British obstetrician and a leading advocate of natural childbirth. Early life and education Dr. Grantly Dick-Read was born in Beccles, Suffolk on 26 January 1890, the son of a Norfolk ...
(1950) * John Reed (1927) *
Rosser Reeves Rosser Reeves (10 September 1910 – 24 January 1984) was an American advertising executive and pioneer of television advertising; Reeves generated millions for his clients. The Ted Bates agency, where he rose to chairman, exists today as Bates ...
(1980) * Guenter Reimann (1939–1942) *
Ben Reitman __NOTOC__ Ben Lewis Reitman M.D. (1879–1943) was an American anarchist and physician to the poor ("the hobo doctor"). He is best remembered today as one of radical Emma Goldman's lovers. Reitman was a flamboyant, eccentric character. Emma Goldm ...
(1931) * Muriel Resnik (1956) * Abraham Revusky (1935–1936) * Frank Rhylick (1939) * Phillip M. Richards (1957) * Joanna Richardson (1952) * James Fred Rippy (1931) * David Roberts (1968–1970) * Lura Robinson (1948) * Paul Robinson (1977–1982) * John W. Rockefeller Jr. (1962–1963) * Harry Rogoff (1930) * A. J. Rongy (1933) * Frank Rooney (1954–1956) * Sadie Mae Rosebrough (1951) * Bill D. Ross (1985) * George Maxim Ross (1960–1961) * Holly Roth (1954) * Carolyn Rothstein (1934) * Herbert Ruhm (1961) *
John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and politi ...
(1926) * Robert W. Russell (1962–1973) * Peggy Rutherfoord (1958) *
Nicola Sacco Nicola Sacco (; April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (; June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrant anarchists who were controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a ...
(1920) * Gordon Sager (1950) * A. S. Sachs (1927) * William St. Clair (1977) * Jany Saint-Marcoux (1958) *
William Sansom William Norman Trevor Sansom FRSL (18 January 1912 – 20 April 1976) was a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose style. Profile Sansom was born in London, the third son of Ernest Brooks Sans ...
(1945) * Gordon Clark Schloming (1978) * Alexander L. Schlosser (1933–1934) * Michael Schmidt (1982–1987) * L. Seth Schnitman (1933) * Pearle Henricksen Schultz (1967–1975) * Cathleen Schurr (1950) *
Delmore Schwartz Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer. Early life Schwartz was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, where he also grew up. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when ...
(1979) *
Gabriel Scott Gabriel Scott (8 March 1874 – 9 July 1958) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and children's writer. Personal life Gabriel Scott Jensen was born in Leith in Scotland as the son of sailors' priest Svend Holst Jensen and his wife wri ...
(1928) *
Hardiman Scott Jack "Peter" Hardiman Scott (2 April 1920 – 15 September 1999) was an English journalist, broadcaster and writer. He served as the BBC's first political editor, from 1970 to 1975. During his time at the BBC, he reported on, and grew close to, ...
(1984–1986) * Grace Scribner (1927) *
Ronald Searle Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's S ...
(1954–1959) *
Laurette Séjourné Laurette Séjourné (L’Aquila, October 24, 1914 – Mexico City, May 25, 2003) was a Mexican archeologist and ethnologist best known for her study of the civilizations of Teotihuacan and the Aztecs and her theories concerning the Mesoamerican cu ...
(1956) * Elliot Selby (1960) * Margaret Cabell Self (1966) * Ramon J. Sender (1948) * Toni Sender (1939) * E. K. Seth-Smith (1957) *
Burr Shafer Burr Shafer (October 24, 1899 – June 25, 1965) was an American cartoonist. His cartoon collections featured the character of J. Wesley Smith appearing in various historical settings. The underlying gag was that Smith was history's greatest wrong- ...
(1950–1963) *
Moshe Shamir Moshe Shamir ( he, משה שמיר; 15 September 1921 – 20 August 2004) was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure. He was the author of a play upon which Israeli film '' He Walked Through the Fields'' was based. Biogr ...
(1958) * William V. Shannon (1950) *
George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
(1926–1957) *
M. P. Shiel Matthew Phipps Shiell (21 July 1865 – 17 February 1947), known as M. P. Shiel, was a British writer. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a ''de facto'' pen name. He is remembered mainly for supernatura ...
(1928–1937) *
Lee Shippey Henry Lee Shippey (February 26, 1884 – December 30, 1969), who wrote under the name Lee Shippey, was an American author and journalist whose romance with a French woman during World War I caused a sensation in the United States as a "famous w ...
(1948) * Hilda Simon (1969–1978) *
William Gayley Simpson William Gayley Simpson (1892 – 1991) was an American white supremacist activist and author associated with William Luther Pierce and the National Alliance. Early life The oldest of three children, he was born July 23, 1892, in Elizabeth, New ...
(1935) *
Dorothy Rice Sims Dorothy may refer to: *Dorothy (given name), a list of people with that name. Arts and entertainment Characters *Dorothy Gale, protagonist of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum * Ace (''Doctor Who'') or Dorothy, a character playe ...
(1944) *
Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in seve ...
(1927–1931) *
Israel Joshua Singer Israel Joshua Singer (Yiddish: ישראל יהושע זינגער ; November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Congress Poland — February 10, 1944 New York) was a Polish-Jewish novelist who wrote in Yiddish. Biography He was born Yisruel Yehoyshye Zinger ...
(1938–1970) *
L. E. Sissman Louis Edward Sissman (January 1, 1928 Detroit – March 10, 1976) was a poet and advertising executive. Biography Sissman was raised in Detroit. He went to private schools, and in 1941 he became a national spelling champion when he won the 17t ...
(1975) * Paula Elizabeth Sits (1957) *
Edith Sitwell Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess ...
(1946–1970) * Caroline Slade (1936–1948) * Cornelius Slater (1987) * Florence Slobodkin (1958–1986) *
Louis Slobodkin Louis Slobodkin (February 19, 1903 – May 8, 1975) was an American people, American sculptor, writer, and illustrator of numerous children's books. Life Slobodkin was born on February 19, 1903, in Albany, New York. He attended the Beaux-Art ...
(1944–1986) *
Agnes Smedley Agnes Smedley (February 23, 1892 – May 6, 1950) was an American journalist, writer, and activist who supported the Indian Independence Movement and the Chinese Communist Revolution. Raised in a poverty-stricken miner's family in Missouri and Co ...
(1938) * Jessica Smith (1928) * Pauline Smith (1927–1963) * Ruth Smith (1946) * Harry Sootin (1959–1960) * Marcos Spinelli (1965) * Benedict Spinoza (1943) * Anne Nall Stallworth (1971–1984) * Stella Standard (1946) * Siegfried Stander (1984) * Richard Stanley (1961) * Michael Stapleton (1955) * Bradley L. Steele (1988) * Arthur Stein (1933) * Charlotte Steiner (1943) * Edith M. Stern (1934) * Virginia F. Stern (1965) * Clifford Stone (1976) *
Rex Stout Rex Todhunter Stout (; December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and ...
(1929–1931) * Flora Strousse (1962) *
Showell Styles Frank Showell Styles (14 March 1908 – 19 February 2005) was an English writer and mountaineer. Biography Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in nearby Sutton Coldfield. His father A ...
(1956–1965) * Edward Dean Sullivan (1929–1934) * L. E. Sussman (1975) * Clarence L. Swartz (1927) * J. Carter Swaim (1965) * O. Tanin (1936) * Frank Tarbeaux (1930) *
Gordon Rattray Taylor Gordon Rattray Taylor (11 January 1911 – 7 December 1981) was a popular British author and journalist. He is most famous for his 1968 book ''The Biological Time Bomb'', which heralded the rise of biotechnology and for his 1983 book ''The Great ...
(1954) * Jay L. B. Taylor (1926) * Courtenay Terrett (1930) * Harrison Cook Thomas (1927) *
Norman Thomas Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Early years Thomas was the ...
(1926–1937) * Francis J. Thompson (1953–1967) *
Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading Transcendentalism, transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon simple living in natural su ...
(1930) * Henry and Freda Thornton (1939) * Doris G. Tobias (1948) *
Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
(1926) * John Tully (1934) *
Geoffrey Trease (Robert) Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 – 27 January 1998) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 and 1997, starting with '' Bows Against the Barons'' and ending with ''Cloak for a Spy'' ...
(1945–1968) * Newell R. Tripp (1927) *
Paul Tripp Paul Tripp (February 20, 1911 – August 29, 2002) was an American children's musician, author, songwriter, and television and film actor. He collaborated with a fellow composer, George Kleinsinger. Tripp was the creator of the 1945 " Tubby ...
(1948) * Johannes Troyer (1957) *
Benjamin Tucker Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (; April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was an American individualist anarchist and libertarian socialist.Martin, James J. (1953)''Men Against the State: The Expositers of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827–1908''< ...
(1926) * Cyril T. Tucker (1965) * Catherine Turlington (1948) * Allan Turpin (1965) *
Parker Tyler Harrison Parker Tyler (March 6, 1904 – June 1974), was an American author, poet, and film critic. Tyler had a relationship with underground filmmaker Charles Boultenhouse (1926–1994) from 1945 until his death. Their papers are held by the New ...
(1948) * Joseph W. Valentine (1963) * Joseph Van Raalte (1931) * Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1931) *
Thorstein Veblen Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, ''The Theory of the Leisure Class'' ...
(1926) * Ilias Venezis (1956) * Ange Vlachos (1964) *
Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his ...
(1929) * Robert Emmet Wall (1981) * Stephen Walton (1967) * James Peter Warbasse (1927) * Betty Waterton (1980) *
Alan Watts Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English writer, speaker and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Japanese, Chinese and Indian traditions of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu ...
(1953–1959) * Edith Lucie Weart (1948) * Harriett Weaver (1974) * Etta Webb (1937) *
H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells"Wells, H. G."
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Charles H. Wesley (1927) * Leon Whipple (1927) * Leon F. Whitney (1954) * Bette Ward Widney (1968) * Ester Wier (1964) *
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
(1928) * Ira S. Wile (1934) *
Geoffrey Willans Herbert Geoffrey Willans, RNVR, (4 February 1911 – 6 August 1958), an English writer and journalist, is best known as the creator of Nigel Molesworth, the "goriller of 3B" and "curse of St. Custard's", as in the four books with illustrations ...
(1954–1959) * Annie Williams-Heller (1944) *
Calder Willingham Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995)Alex MacaulayBiographical entry of Calder Willinghamfrom the New Georgia Encyclopedia was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of 30, after three novels ...
(1947–1969) * Lucy L. W. Wilson (1928) * John K. Winkler (1929–1934) * Stephen Winsten (1949) * Ann Woddin (1985) *
Charles Erskine Scott Wood Charles Erskine Scott Wood or C.E.S. Wood (February 20, 1852January 22, 1944) was an American author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, attorney, and Georgist. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, '' Heavenly ...
(1927–1949) * Clement Wood (1926–1930) * James Wood (1959–1969) * William Wordsworth (1983) *
John M. Work John McClelland Work (1869–1961) was an American socialist writer, lecturer, activist, and political functionary. Work is best remembered as a founding member of the Socialist Party of America and as the author of one of its best-selling propagan ...
(1927) * Dale Worsley (1980) * Wladimir S. Woytinsky (1961–1962) * A. D. Wraight (1965) * Helena Wright (1931–1932) * Violet Wyndham (1958–1964) * Yaacov Yannai (1965) * Vassily S. Yanovsky (1972) *
Avrahm Yarmolinsky Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch. Biography in Context. Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library from 1918 to 19 ...
(1928) * E. Yohan (1936) * Robert York (1986) *
Art Young Arthur Henry Young (January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left-wing political magazine ''The Masses'' between 1911 and 1917. B ...
(1936) * Hugh Zachary (1986) * Arthur Zaidenberg (1956–1968) * Marya Zaturenska (1974)


Bibliography of titles published in the Garland Fund period (1926–1931)

: Note: Dates of first edition included in parentheses when known, per direct observation of title pages, ABEBooks.com, and WorldCat.


Social Science Classics

* 1.
John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and politi ...
, ''Ruskin's Views of Social Science.'' Introduction by J. Fuchs, editor. * 2.
Leo Tolstoi Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
, ''War — Patriotism — Peace.'' Introduction by Scott Nearing, editor. * 3. P.J. Proudhon, ''Proudon's Solution of the Social Problem.'' Introduction by Henry Cohen, editor. * 4.
Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
, ''The Essentials of Marx.'' Introduction by Algernon Lee, editor. (1926) * 5. Nikolai Lenin, ''Imperialism and The State and Revolution.'' (November 1926) * 6.
Peter Kropotkin Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (; russian: link=no, Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian, scientist, philosopher, and activis ...
, ''The Conquest of Bread.'' * 7. Peter Kropotkin, ''Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets.'' Introduction by Roger Baldwin. * 8.
Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...
, ''London's Essays of Revolt.'' Introduction by Leonard D. Abbott. (December 1926) * 9. H.G. Wells, ''Social Emancipation.'' Introduction by
Harry W. Laidler Harry Wellington Laidler (February 18, 1884 – July 14, 1970) was an American socialist writer, magazine editor, and politician. He is best remembered as executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy, successor to the Intercollegiate ...
, editor. * 10.
Edward Carpenter Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rightsWarren Allen Smith: ''Who's Who in Hell, A Handbook and International Directory for Human ...
, ''Love's Coming of Age.'' (December 1926) * 11.
Thorstein Veblen Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism. In his best-known book, ''The Theory of the Leisure Class'' ...
, ''The Theory of the Leisure Class.'' (October 1926; first published in 1899) * 12.
Franz Oppenheimer Franz Oppenheimer (March 30, 1864 – September 30, 1943) was a German Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state. Life and career After studying medicine in Freiburg and ...
, ''The State.'' * 13.
Henry George Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the eco ...
, ''Progress and Poverty.'' (abridged) * 14.
Benjamin R. Tucker Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (; April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was an American individualist anarchist and libertarian socialist.Martin, James J. (1953)''Men Against the State: The Expositers of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827–1908''< ...
, ''Individual Liberty.'' Introduction by C.L.S., editor. * 15.
Robert Blatchford Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford (17 March 1851 – 17 December 1943) was an English socialist campaigner, journalist, and author in the United Kingdom. He was also noted as a prominent atheist, nationalist and opponent of eugenics. In the early ...
, ''Not Guilty.'' * 16. Peter Kropotkin, ''The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793.'' In two volumes. Translated by N.F. Dryhurst.


Social Philosophies

* 51. Clarence L. Swartz, ''What is Mutualism?'' * 52. James Peter Warbasse, ''What is Cooperation?'' * 53. Louis F. Post, ''What is the Single Tax?'' * 54. Jessie W. Hughan, ''What is Socialism?'' (October 1928) * 55.
Alexander Berkman Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870June 28, 1936) was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing. B ...
, ''What is Communist Anarchism?'' : Note: Although in 1928 Vanguard Press was announcing the title ''What is Communism?'' as "in preparation", it was not until 1936 that Vanguard published a
mass market paperback A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, lea ...
by that title written by the General Secretary of the
Communist Party USA The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revo ...
,
Earl Browder Earl Russell Browder (May 20, 1891 – June 27, 1973) was an American politician, communist activist and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Browder was the General Secretary of the CPUSA during the 1930s and first half of the 1940s. Duri ...
.


Current Questions

* 61. Charles H. Wesley, ''Negro Labor in the United States.'' * 62. Coleman, Hayes, and Wood, ''Don't Tread on Me.'' * 63. A.S. Sachs, ''Basic Principles of Scientific Socialism.'' (April 1927; previously issued by Rand School of Social Science in 1925.) * 64. Harry Laidler and
Norman Thomas Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Early years Thomas was the ...
, eds., ''New Tactics in Social Conflict: A Symposium.'' (1926; published for the
League for Industrial Democracy The League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was founded as a successor to the Intercollegiate Socialist Society in 1921. Members decided to change its name to reflect a more inclusive and more organizational perspective. Background Intercollegiate So ...
) * 65. Scott Nearing, ''The British General Strike.'' (late 1926) * 66.
Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in seve ...
, ''The Profits of Religion.'' * 67.
John M. Work John McClelland Work (1869–1961) was an American socialist writer, lecturer, activist, and political functionary. Work is best remembered as a founding member of the Socialist Party of America and as the author of one of its best-selling propagan ...
, ''What's So and What Isn't.'' (1927; first published in 1905) * 68. Warren Edwin Brokaw, ''Equitable Society and How to Create It.'' * 69. Leon Whipple, ''The Story of Civil Liberty in the United States.'' (March 1927) * 70. C.H. Hamlin, ''The War Myth in U.S. History.'' * 71. Norman Thomas, ''Is Conscience a Crime?'' (March 1927; first published by Huebsch in 1923) * 72. Scott Nearing, ''Where is Civilization Going?'' (April 1927) * 73. Robert W. Dunn, ''Company Unions.'' Introduction by Louis Budenz. * 74. B. Liber, ''The Child and the Home.'' * 75. Harry Laidler and Norman Thomas, ''The Socialism of Our Times.'' (published for the League for Industrial Democracy) * 76. Hugo Bilgram, ''The Remedy for Overproduction and Unemployment.'' * No number.
Charles Erskine Scott Wood Charles Erskine Scott Wood or C.E.S. Wood (February 20, 1852January 22, 1944) was an American author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, attorney, and Georgist. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, '' Heavenly ...
, ''Heavenly Discourse.'' Drawings by
Art Young Arthur Henry Young (January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left-wing political magazine ''The Masses'' between 1911 and 1917. B ...
. Frontispiece by
Hugo Gellert Hugo Gellert (born Hugó Grünbaum, May 3, 1892 December 9, 1985) was a Hungarian-American illustrator and muralist. A committed radical and member of the Communist Party of America, Gellert created much work for political activism in the 1920s ...
. Foreword by Floyd Dell. (June 1927; published for ''The New Masses)'' * No number. Harry W. Laidler and Norman Thomas, eds. ''Prosperity? A Symposium.'' (November 1927; published for the League for Industrial Democracy)


Studies of Soviet Russia

: Note: Launched on the 10th Anniversary of the
Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...
. Series Editor was Jerome Davis. * 91. H.N. Brailsford, ''How the Soviets Work.'' (November 1927) * 92. Karl Borders, ''Village Life Under the Soviets.'' (November 1927) * 93. Scott Nearing and Jack Hardy, ''The Economic Organization of the Soviet Union.'' (November 1927) * 94.
R. Page Arnot Robert "Robin" Page Arnot (15 December 1890 – 18 May 1986), best known as R. Page Arnot, was a British Communist journalist and politician. Early years Robert Page Arnot, known to his friends as "Robin", was born in 1890 at Greenock, the son ...
, ''Soviet Russia and Her Neighbors.'' (November 1927) * 95. Julius F. Hecker, ''Religion Under the Soviets.'' * 96.
Avrahm Yarmolinsky Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch. Biography in Context. Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library from 1918 to 19 ...
, ''The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities Under the Soviets.'' (1938) * 97. Anna J. Haines, ''Health Work in Soviet Russia.'' (March 1928) * 98. Jessica Smith, ''Woman in Soviet Russia.'' * 99. Robert W. Dunn, ''Soviet Trade Unions.'' (March 1928) * 100. Lucy L.W. Wilson, ''The New Schools of Soviet Russia.'' * 101. Roger N. Baldwin, ''Liberty Under the Soviets.'' (November 1928)


Fiction and Biography

* 111. Upton Sinclair, ''Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel.'' In Two Volumes. * 112. William Edge, ''The Main Stem.'' * 113. John Reed, ''Daughter of the Revolution and Other Stories.'' Introduction by
Floyd Dell Floyd James Dell (June 28, 1887 – July 23, 1969) was an American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet. Dell has been called "one of the most flamboyant, versatile and influential American Men of Letters ...
. (August 1927) * 114. Grace Scribner, ''An American Pilgrimage: Portions of the Letters of Grace Scribner.'' L. Winifred, editor. (1927) * 115.
Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel ''Looking Backward''. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerou ...
, ''Looking Backward.'' * 116.
William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...
, ''News from Nowhere.'' * 117. Upton Sinclair, ''The Jungle.'' * 118. Ivan Cankar, ''Yerney's Justice.'' Translated by
Louis Adamic Louis Adamic ( sl, Alojzij Adamič; March 23, 1898 – September 4, 1951) was a Slovene-American author and translator, mostly known for writing about and advocating for ethnic diversity of the United States. Background Louis Adamic ...
. (1926) * 119. M.H. Hedges, ''Dan Minturn.'' * 120. R.W. Postgate, ''Out of the Past.''


Great Books Made Easy

* 141.
Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...
, ''The Descent of Man.'' Summarized by Newell R. Tripp. * 142.
Ernst Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new sp ...
, ''The Riddle of the Universe.'' Summarized by
Vance Randolph Vance Randolph (February 23, 1892 – November 1, 1980) was a folklorist who studied the folklore of the Ozarks in particular. He wrote a number of books on the Ozarks, as well as ''Little Blue Books'' and juvenile fiction. Early life Randolph ...
. * 143.
Henry Thomas Buckle Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished ''History of Civilization'', and a strong amateur chess player. He is sometimes called "the Father of Scientific History". Early life ...
, ''History of Civilization in England.'' Summarized by Clement Wood. * 144. W.E.H. Lecky, ''History of European Morals.'' Summarized by Clement Wood. * 145.
John William Draper John William Draper (May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882) was an English-born American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is credited with producing the first clear photograph of a female face (1839–40) and ...
, ''History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science.'' Abridged by Sprading. * 146. Lester F. Ward, ''Sociology.'' Introduction by Harry Elmer Barnes.


Educational Outlines

* 161. John Haldane Blackie, ''The ABC of Art.'' (August 1927) * 162. Vance Randolph, ''The ABC of Evolution.'' (1926) * 163. Vance Randolph, ''The ABC of Psychology.'' * 164. Vance Randolph, ''Your Body: The ABC of Physiology.'' (1927) * 165. Jay L.B. Taylor, ''The ABC of Astronomy.'' * 166. Allison Hardy seudonym of Vance Randolph ''Written in the Rocks: The ABC of Geology.'' * 167. Vance Randolph, ''Flora and Fauna: The ABC of Biology.'' (1927) * 168. Newell R. Tripp, ''The ABC of Chemistry.'' * 169. Jay L.B. Taylor, ''The ABC of Physics.'' * 170. W. Lockwood Marsh, ''Wings: The ABC of Flying.'' (1929) * 171. H.C. Thomas and W.A. Hamm, ''Foundations of Modern Civilization: The ABC of History, Volume 1.'' * 172. H.C. Thomas and W.A. Hamm, ''Civilization in Transition (1789–1870): The ABC of History, Volume 2.'' (January 1928) * 173. H.C. Thomas and W.A. Hamm, ''In Our Times: The ABC of History, Volume 3.'' (1928)


American Imperialism

* No number. Melvin M. Knight, ''The Americans in Santo Domingo.'' * No number. M.A. Marsh, ''The Bankers in Bolivia.'' * No number. L.H. Jenks, ''Our Cuban Colony.''


Miscellaneous titles

* No number. ''1927 American Labor Year Book.'' * No number. ''The American Labor Who's Who.''


Unnumbered 1929 publications by author

* Harry Elmer Barnes, ''The Twilight of Christianity.'' * McAlister Coleman, ''Pioneers of Freedom: Eleven Short Biographies.'' Introduction by Norman Thomas. * Donald Henderson Clarke, ''In the Reign of Rothstein.'' * Donald Henderson Clarke, ''Louis Beretti.'' * H.B. Drake, ''The Children Reap.'' * James Francis Dwyer, ''Evelyn: Something More than a Story.'' * C. Hartley Grattan, ''Why We Fought.'' * Oliver Wendell Holmes, ''The Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes.'' Introduction by George W. Kirchwey. * Edgar Jepson, ''The Cuirass of Diamonds.'' * Alexandra Kollontay, ''A Great Love.'' *
Ferenc Molnár Ferenc Molnár ( , ; born Ferenc Neumann; 12 January 18781 April 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage-director, dramatist, and poet, widely regarded as Hungary’s most celebrated and controversial playw ...
, ''The Plays of Ferenc Molnár.'' Introduction by David Belasco. * Scott Nearing, ''Black America.'' * Suzanne Normand, ''Five Women on a Galley.'' Translated by G.S. Taylor. * R.W. Postgate, ''That Devil Wilkes.'' * M.P. Shiel, ''Cold Steel.'' * M.P. Shiel, ''Dr. Krasinski's Secret.'' * Rex Stout, ''How Like a God.'' * Edward Dean Sullivan, ''I'll Tell My Big Brother.'' * Edward D. Sullivan, ''Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime.'' * John K. Winkler, ''John D.: A Portrait in Oils.'' * Charles Erskine Scott Wood, ''A Book of Tales: Being Some Myths of the North American Indians.'' * Charles Erskine Scott Wood, ''The Poet in the Desert.'' *
Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his ...
, ''The Best of All Possible Worlds: Tales and Romances.'' Introduction by
Clarence Darrow Clarence Seward Darrow (; April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. He was a leading member of t ...
.


Unnumbered 1930 publications by author

* Anonymous, ''Ex-"It" (With Guilty Acknowledgements to Ex-Wife, Ex-Husband, Ex-Mistress) — In which Fanny Hill Tells All.'' Illustrated by L.F. Grant. * Robert C. Binkley, ''Responsible Drinking.'' * James Boswell, ''The Conversations of Dr Johnson, selected from the "Life" by James Boswell.'' R.W. Postgate, editor. * Louis Brandeis, ''The Social and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Brandeis.'' Alfred Leif, editor. * Donald Henderson Clarke, ''Millie.'' * Freda Hauswirth Das, ''A Marriage to India.'' *
Mary Ware Dennett Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (April 4, 1872 – July 25, 1947) was an American women's rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate, and pioneer in the areas of birth control, sex education, and women's suffrage. She co-founded the Nationa ...
, ''Who's Obscene?'' *
James T. Farrell James Thomas Farrell (February 27, 1904 – August 22, 1979) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. He is most remembered for the ''Studs Lonigan'' trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and a television series in 1979. B ...
, ''The League of Frightened Philistines: And Other Papers.'' * William Floyd, ''People Vs. Wall Street: A Mock Trial.'' * Joseph Freeman, Joshua Kunitz, and Louis Lozowick, ''Voices of October: Art and Literature in Soviet Russia.'' * Lev Goomilevsky, ''Dog Lane.'' * Carroll Graham and Garrett Graham, ''Queer People.'' * Lynn Haines and Dora B. Haines, ''The Lindberghs.'' * John Held Jr., ''Grim Youth.'' * John Held Jr., ''John Held Jr.'s Dog Stories.'' * Elisabeth Sanxy Holding, ''Dark Power.'' * Panait Istrati, ''The Thistles of the Baragan.'' Translated by Jacques Le Clercq. * Emanuel H. Levine, ''The Third Degree: A Detailed Account of Police Brutality.'' * Norman Matson, ''The Log of the Coriolanus.'' * Scott Nearing, ''The Twilight of Empire: An Economic Interpretation of Imperialist Cycles.'' * Louis F. Post, ''The Prophet of San Francisco: Personal Memories and Interpretations of Henry George.'' * Harry Rogoff, ''An East-Side Epic: The Life and Work of
Meyer London Meyer London (December 29, 1871 – June 6, 1926) was an American politician from New York City. He represented the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congre ...
.'' * Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, ''The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti.'' Marion Deman Frankfurter and Gardner Jackson, eds. * M.P. Shiel, ''The Black Box.'' * M.P. Shiel, ''The Purple Cloud.'' * Rex Stout, ''Seed on the Wind.'' * Edward Dean Sullivan, ''Chicago Surrenders.'' * Frank Tarbeaux with Donald Henderson Clarke, ''The Autobiography of Frank Tarbeaux.'' * Courtenay Terrett, ''Only Saps Work: A Ballyhoo for Racketeering.'' * Henry David Thoreau, ''Thoreau: Philosopher of Freedom: Writings on Liberty.'' Introduction by James Mackaye. * John K. Winkler, ''Morgan the Magnificent: The Life of J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913).'' * Clement Wood, ''The Substance Of The Sociology Of Lester F. Ward.''


Unnumbered 1931 publications by author

* James W. Barrett, ''The World, The Flesh, and Messrs. Pulitzer.'' * Silas Bent, ''Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.'' *
Heywood Broun Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. (; December 7, 1888 – December 18, 1939) was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, later known as The Newspaper ...
and George Britt, ''Christians Only: A Study in Prejudice.'' * Donald Henderson Clarke, ''Impatient Virgin.'' * Donald Henderson Clarke, ''Young and Healthy.'' * Frieda Hauswirth Das, ''Gandhi: A Portrait from Life.'' * Mary Ware Dennett, ''The Sex Education of Children: A Book for Parents.'' * Bailey W. Diffie, ''Porto Rico: A Broken Pledge.'' * Charles W. Gardner, ''The Doctor and The Devil; or Midnight Adventures of Dr. Parkhurst.'' * Mary Elisabeth Given, artist, ''The Lord's Prayer.'' * Carroll Graham and Garrett Graham, ''Whitey: The Playboy of "Queer People" Runs Riot in Manhattan.'' * Ernest Gruening, ''The Public Pays: A Study of Power Propaganda.'' * John Held Jr., ''The Flesh is Weak.'' * John Held Jr., ''Women are Necessary.'' * Panait Istrati, ''The Bitter Orange Tree.'' * Garibaldi M. Lapolla, ''Fire in the Flesh.'' * Emanuel Levine, ''Gimme; or How Politicians Get Rich.'' * Alfred Lief, editor. ''Representative Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes.'' Foreword by Harold J. Laski. * Scott Nearing, ''A Warless World: Is a Warless World Possible?'' * Scott Nearing, ''Another World War: World War Comes with World Civilization.'' * Scott Nearing: ''War: Organized Destruction and Mass Murder By Civilized Nations.'' * Katharine Pollak and Tom Tippett, ''Your Job and Your Pay: A Picture of the World in which We Work.'' * Vance Randolph, ''The Ozarks: An American Survival of Primitive Society.'' * Ben L. Reitman, ''The Second Oldest Profession: A Study of the Prostitutes "Business Managers."'' * James Fred Rippy, ''The Capitalists and Colombia.'' * Joseph Van Raalte, ''The Vice Squad.'' * Dean Stiff, ''The Milk and Honey Route: A Handbook for Hobos.'' * Rex Stout, ''Golden Remedy.'' * John K. Winkler, ''Incredible Carnegie: The Life of Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919).'' * Charles Erskine Scott Wood, ''Too Much Government.'' * Helena Wright, ''The Sex Factor in Marriage: A Book for Those Who Are About to Be Married.'' Introductions by A. Herbert Gray and Abel Gregg.


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