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- catalog abstract "Conroy, a coal miner's son who apprenticed at age thirteen in a railroad shop, later migrated to factory cities and experienced the privation and labor struggles of the 1930s. As worker and writer he composed The Disinherited, one of the most important working-class novels of the thirties. As editor of a radical literary journal, The Anvil, he nurtured the early careers of Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, and Meridel LeSueur before his own literary work was eclipsed in the cold war years. Douglas Wixson draws upon a wealth of letters and manuscripts made available to him as Conroy's literary executor, as well as numerous interviews with Conroy and his former contributors and colleagues. Wixson explores the origins and development of worker-writing and the numerous "little magazines" it generated. He examines the differences between the midwestern and East Coast literary worlds and the milieu in which Conroy and others like him worked - the Depression, job layoffs, factory closings, homelessness, and migration.".
- catalog contributor b5730937.
- catalog coverage "Middle West In literature.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Conroy, a coal miner's son who apprenticed at age thirteen in a railroad shop, later migrated to factory cities and experienced the privation and labor struggles of the 1930s. As worker and writer he composed The Disinherited, one of the most important working-class novels of the thirties. As editor of a radical literary journal, The Anvil, he nurtured the early careers of Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, and Meridel LeSueur before his own literary work was eclipsed in the cold war years. Douglas Wixson draws upon a wealth of letters and manuscripts made available to him as Conroy's literary executor, as well as numerous interviews with Conroy and his former contributors and colleagues. Wixson explores the origins and development of worker-writing and the numerous "little magazines" it generated. He examines the differences between the midwestern and East Coast literary worlds and the milieu in which Conroy and others like him worked - the Depression, job layoffs, factory closings, homelessness, and migration.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-636) and index.".
- catalog description "Monkey nest mine -- Monkey nest coal camp -- The wabash shops -- The great railroad strike of 1922 -- My Universities -- Early literary contacts -- The crucible of experience -- Exiles in their native land -- Worker-writers and editors -- Proletarian night -- The gathering storm -- Comrade Jack -- Proletarian bull market -- "Something great has begun" -- The road to meca temple -- The unmaking of the worker-writer -- The writers' project years -- Only a bridesmade -- Home to Moberly.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 678 p., [10] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Worker-writer in America.".
- catalog identifier "025202043X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Worker-writer in America.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Worker-writer in America.".
- catalog spatial "Middle West In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Middle West".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.52 B 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990.".
- catalog subject "PS3505.O53 Z95 1993".
- catalog subject "PS3505.O53 Z95 1994".
- catalog subject "Radicalism Middle West History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Radicalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Radicals Middle West Biography.".
- catalog subject "Working class Middle West Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Working class authors United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Working class writings, American History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Monkey nest mine -- Monkey nest coal camp -- The wabash shops -- The great railroad strike of 1922 -- My Universities -- Early literary contacts -- The crucible of experience -- Exiles in their native land -- Worker-writers and editors -- Proletarian night -- The gathering storm -- Comrade Jack -- Proletarian bull market -- "Something great has begun" -- The road to meca temple -- The unmaking of the worker-writer -- The writers' project years -- Only a bridesmade -- Home to Moberly.".
- catalog title "Worker-writer in America : Jack Conroy and the tradition of midwestern literary radicalism, 1898-1990 / Douglas Wixson.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".