Persecution and the Art of Writing

Persecution and the Art of Writing is a 1941 essay, later included in an anthology of the same name, by Leo Strauss.

The essay was first published in the final issue of Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, an organ of the Frankfurt Institute School for Social Research. Editors of that journal included Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, and frequent contributors of the journal during its run included Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse. Strauss expanded the concept into a book-length collection of lectures in 1952.