Vanguard Press
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The Vanguard Press was a United States publishing house established with a $100,000 grant from the left wing 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 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.
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
, Saul Bellow
, Marshall McLuhan
, Joyce Carol Oates
and Dr. Seuss
. With a valuable backlist
of 500 titles, the company was sold to Random House
in October 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.
, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
, Clinton Golden, Louis Kopelin, Bertha Mailly, Scott Nearing
and Rex Stout
. 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 Little Blue Books of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Vanguard depicted itself in promotional advertising as "destined to be the Ford
of Book Publishing" through its inexpensive offerings of "all the grand old idol breakers."
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 hardcover
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 Harry Elmer Barnes
and launched in 1928 bore a cover price of $1.00 per copy. Vanguard also published the 1927 edition of the American Labor Year Book on behalf of the Socialist Party
-affiliated Rand School of Social Science
, 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 George Macy, president of Macy-Masius, and Jacob Baker, Vanguard's managing director.
With the coming of the downturn of the economy
in 1929, Vanguard Press steadily moved away from radical political publications and toward more mainstream literary
titles as well as apolitical titles of topical interest, such as studies of Charles Lindbergh
and organized crime
in Chicago
.
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.
, Henle signed a number of muckraking journalists. One of Vanguard's greatest successes was 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs
(1933), an exposé about dangerous consumer products written by Arthur Kallet
, who three years later would found the Consumers Union
and Consumer Reports
magazine.
Among many novels of social realism, Vanguard published more than 30 books by James T. Farrell
. Those comprising his Studs Lonigan
trilogy (collected in a single volume in 1935) and Donald Henderson Clarke
's Female
(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 Lincoln Steffens
, but because it had issued Calder Willingham
'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 House Un-American Activities Committee
on the ground that in the twenties it had published some books by Communist and left-wing writers. HUAC later apologized for the investigation."
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 Dr. Seuss
and Saul Bellow
, and the first books of Nelson Algren
, Calder Willingham
and Marshall McLuhan
. It published Auntie Mame
(1955), a comic novel rejected by a dozen publishers before it became a runaway bestseller. Vanguard published Pierre Boulle
's The Bridge over the River Kwai (1954) and Planet of the Apes (1963). It published Joyce Carol Oates
' first book
, and 20 more — including her novel, Them
, winner of the National Book Award
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.
. She told The New York Times
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 backlist
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 Columbia University
in New York City in 1989. Evelyn Shrifte's papers are in the collection of Syracuse University
.
.
Garland Fund
The American Fund for Public Service, commonly known as the Garland Fund, was a philanthropic organization established in 1922 by Charles Garland, the son of a Wall Street stockbroker named James A Garland Jr. and Marie Louise Tudor Garland...
. Throughout the 1920s, Vanguard Press issued an array of books on radical topics, including studies of the Soviet Union, socialist 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.
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
Nelson Algren was an American writer.-Early life:Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Goldie and Gerson Abraham. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side...
, Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
, Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...
, Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
and Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone....
. With a valuable backlist
Backlist
A backlist is a list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to titles newly published .Building a strong backlist has traditionally been seen as the way to produce a profitable publishing house, as the most expensive aspects of the publishing process have already been paid for and...
of 500 titles, the company was sold to Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
in October 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.
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. 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 BaldwinRoger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union . He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950....
, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World . Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage...
, Clinton Golden, Louis Kopelin, Bertha Mailly, Scott Nearing
Scott Nearing
Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living.-The early years:...
and Rex Stout
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the...
. 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 Little Blue Books of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Vanguard depicted itself in promotional advertising as "destined to be the Ford
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...
of Book Publishing" through its inexpensive offerings of "all the grand old idol breakers."
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 hardcover
Hardcover
A hardcover, hardback or hardbound is a book bound with rigid protective covers...
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 Harry Elmer Barnes
Harry Elmer Barnes
Harry Elmer Barnes was a prominent American historian in the 20th century. A "progressive who had some classical liberal impulses," he was associated for virtually his entire career with Columbia University.-Early career:...
and launched in 1928 bore a cover price of $1.00 per copy. Vanguard also published the 1927 edition of the American Labor Year Book on behalf of the Socialist Party
Socialist Party of America
The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...
-affiliated Rand School of Social Science
Rand School of Social Science
The Rand School of Social Science was formed in New York City by adherents of the Socialist Party of America in 1906. The school aimed to provide a broad education to workers, imparting a politicizing class-consciousness, and additionally served as a research bureau, a publisher, and the operator...
, 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 George Macy, president of Macy-Masius, and Jacob Baker, Vanguard's managing director.
With the coming of the downturn of the economy
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
in 1929, Vanguard Press steadily moved away from radical political publications and toward more mainstream literary
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
titles as well as apolitical titles of topical interest, such as studies of Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Lindbergh, a 25-year-old U.S...
and organized crime
Organized crime
Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...
in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
.
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 New York WorldNew York World
The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers...
, Henle signed a number of muckraking journalists. One of Vanguard's greatest successes was 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics is a book written by Arthur Kallet and F.J. Schlink first released in 1933 by the Vanguard Press and manufactured in the United States of America...
(1933), an exposé about dangerous consumer products written by Arthur Kallet
Arthur Kallet
Arthur Kallet was a leading consumer advocate.An engineer, Kallet co-authored a 1933 book entitled 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs and Cosmetics with fellow engineer Frederick Schlink.In 1936 he left as director of Consumers Research after its head F.J...
, who three years later would found the Consumers Union
Consumers Union
Consumers Union is a non-profit organization best known as the publisher of Consumer Reports, based in the United States. Its mission is to "test products, inform the public, and protect consumers."...
and Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports is an American magazine published monthly by Consumers Union since 1936. It publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory. It also publishes cleaning and general buying guides...
magazine.
Among many novels of social realism, Vanguard published more than 30 books by James T. Farrell
James T. Farrell
James Thomas Farrell was an American novelist. One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and into a television miniseries in 1979...
. Those comprising his Studs Lonigan
Studs Lonigan
Studs Lonigan is the title of a novel trilogy by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the Studs Lonigan trilogy at 29th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.The...
trilogy (collected in a single volume in 1935) and Donald Henderson Clarke
Donald Henderson Clarke
Donald Henderson Clarke was an American writer and journalist, known for his romantic novels, mystery fiction, and screenplays. Clarke was born on August 24, 1887 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and died March 27, 1958 in Delray Beach, Florida Many of his screenplays were directed by John...
's Female
Female (book)
Female is a 1933 novel by Donald Henderson Clarke. It was translated into Czech as Samička : Román ženy .The novel was used as the basis of the feature film Female, produced the same year by Warner Bros...
(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
Robert S. Allen
Robert Sharon Allen was a Washington D.C. correspondent and Washington bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor....
, a collection of essays demonstrating that civic corruption had not changed since the days of Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens
-Biography:Steffens was born April 6, 1866, in San Francisco. He grew up in a wealthy family and attended a military academy. He studied in France and Germany after graduating from the University of California....
, but because it had issued Calder Willingham
Calder Willingham
Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter. He cowrote several notable screenplays, including Paths of Glory and One-Eyed Jacks ....
'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 House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Committee on Un-American Activities or House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security"...
on the ground that in the twenties it had published some books by Communist and left-wing writers. HUAC later apologized for the investigation."
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 Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone....
and Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
, and the first books of Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren was an American writer.-Early life:Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Goldie and Gerson Abraham. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side...
, Calder Willingham
Calder Willingham
Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter. He cowrote several notable screenplays, including Paths of Glory and One-Eyed Jacks ....
and Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...
. It published Auntie Mame
Auntie Mame
Auntie Mame is a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis. The book is a work of fiction inspired by the author's eccentric aunt, Marion Tanner, whose life and outlook in many...
(1955), a comic novel rejected by a dozen publishers before it became a runaway bestseller. Vanguard published Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes .-Biography:...
's The Bridge over the River Kwai (1954) and Planet of the Apes (1963). It published Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
' first book
By the North Gate
By the North Gate is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. It was the author's first book, first published by Vanguard Press in 1963.It was last published in 1971 by Fawcett...
, and 20 more — including her novel, Them
Them (novel)
Them by Joyce Carol Oates is the third novel in The Wonderland Quartet, first published in 1969.-Plot:Them explores the complex struggles of American life through three down-on-their-luck characters—Loretta, Maureen and Jules—who are attempting to reach normality and the American dream through...
, winner of the National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
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 Random HouseRandom House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
. She told The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
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 backlist
Backlist
A backlist is a list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to titles newly published .Building a strong backlist has traditionally been seen as the way to produce a profitable publishing house, as the most expensive aspects of the publishing process have already been paid for and...
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 Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in New York City in 1989. Evelyn Shrifte's papers are in the collection of Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
.
Perseus Book Group
An unrelated imprint, Vanguard Press, was established in 2007 by publisher Roger Cooper. The new Vanguard Press http://www.vanguardpressbooks.com/home.php is an imprint of Perseus Books GroupPerseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group is an American publishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. It was named Publisher of the Year in 2007 by Publishers Weekly magazine for its role in taking on publishers formerly distributed by Publishers Group West and acquiring Avalon Publishing Group.In January...
.
Authors
Authors' names are followed by their known dates of association with the Vanguard Press.- Karin Abarbanel (1975)
- Leonard D. Abbott (1926)
- Raymond H. AbbottRaymond Abbott-Biography:Raymond Herbert Abbott was born in Newburyport, April 21, 1942. He was the son of Myron E., a ship worker, and Evelyn . He was educated at University of Massachusetts in 1965 with a B.A. and University of Kentucky graduate studies, 1967–68. He is a member of the Authors Guild. He...
(1986) - Mena Abdullah (1983)
- P. B. Abercrombie (1946)
- Frank AdamsFrank Adams (artist)Frank Adams was an American artist. Starting as an engineering draftsman during World War II, he was known for book illustrations, cartoons, and paintings. .Adams is noted for "The Home Front" first published in 1944...
(1952) - Jean Adhémar (1955)
- J. Bentley Aistrop (1955–1961)
- Elizabeth Perkins Aldrich (1942)
- Nelson AlgrenNelson AlgrenNelson Algren was an American writer.-Early life:Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Goldie and Gerson Abraham. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side...
(1935) - Mabel Esther AllanMabel Esther AllanMabel Esther Allan was a British author of about 130 children's books.Mabel Esther Allan was born at Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula. She decided to be an author at the age of eight; her father bought her a writing desk and taught her how to type...
(1952–1974) - Robert S. AllenRobert S. AllenRobert Sharon Allen was a Washington D.C. correspondent and Washington bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor....
(1947–1950) - E. M. AlmedingenE. M. AlmedingenE. M. Almedingen was a British novelist, biographer and children's author of Russian origin....
(1964–1974) - Gulielma Fell Alsop (1941–1947)
- Ian Andersen (1976–1978)
- Madelyn Klein Anderson (1983)
- Nels AndersonNels AndersonNels Anderson was an early American sociologist. He studied at the University of Chicago under Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess, whose concentric zone theory was one of the earliest models developed to explain the organization of urban areas...
(1931) - Raymond Andrieux (1943–1945)
- Samuel AntekSamuel AntekSamuel Antek was a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Arturo Toscanini. He joined at the orchestra's inception in 1937 and played with it until its dissolution in 1954....
(1963) - Sebastian Juan Arbo (1955)
- R. Page Arnot (1927)
- Claude Arthaud (1956)
- Nancy Asbaugh (1971)
- Herbert AsburyHerbert AsburyHerbert Asbury was an American journalist and writer who is best known for his true crime books detailing crime during the 19th and early 20th century such as Gem of the Prairie, Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld and The Gangs of New York...
(1928) - Edith Lesser Atkin (1976)
- Wallace W. AtwoodWallace Walter AtwoodWallace Walter Atwood was an American geographer and geologist.Wallace Walter Atwood main contribution was his idea of Global Species Consolidation. He theorized that men follow a set path in their evolution. The first stage is Dispersion, which represents migration from a point of origin...
(1945–1975) - Vickey Aubrey (1982)
- Michel Audrain (1955)
- Leonora Baccante (1931)
- Walter Bacon (1941–1961)
- Denys Val BakerDenys Val BakerDenys Val Baker was a British writer, specialising in short stories, novels, and autobiographical novels. He was also known for his activities as an editor, and promotion of the arts in Cornwall.-Early years:...
(1947–1974) - Jacob Baker (1937)
- Nancy C. Baker (1978–1980)
- Nina Brown Baker (1941–1948)
- Roger N. BaldwinRoger Nash BaldwinRoger Nash Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union . He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950....
(1927) - Evelyn I. Banning (1965–1973)
- Jane B. Barkley (1958)
- Nigel BarleyNigel BarleyNigel Barley is an anthropologist famous for the books he has written on his experiences. He studied modern languages at Cambridge University and completed a doctorate in social anthropology at Oxford University...
(1984) - Harry Elmer BarnesHarry Elmer BarnesHarry Elmer Barnes was a prominent American historian in the 20th century. A "progressive who had some classical liberal impulses," he was associated for virtually his entire career with Columbia University.-Early career:...
(1929) - James Wyman Barrett (1931–1941)
- Judith S. Baughman (1974)
- Julius Baum (1956)
- Charles A. BeardCharles A. BeardCharles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science...
(1930) - Cynon Beaton-Jones (1956)
- John BeecherJohn BeecherJohn Beecher was an activist poet, writer and journalist who wrote about the Southern United States during the Great Depression and the American Civil Rights Movement. Beecher was extremely active in the American labor and Civil Rights movements...
(1980) - David BelascoDavid BelascoDavid Belasco was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright.-Biography:Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England, during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs,...
(1929) - Edward BellamyEdward BellamyEdward Bellamy was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000. He was a very influential writer during the Gilded Age of United States history.-Early life:...
(1927) - Saul BellowSaul BellowSaul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
(1944–1947) - Marion Benasutti (1966)
- M. J. Benadette (1937)
- Lowell Bennett (1943–1945)
- Silas BentSilas BentSilas Bent IV , son of Silas Bent III and Ann Elizabeth Bent was an American was a journalist, author, and lecturer. He began newspaper work in 1900 in Louisville, Kentucky, on the Louisville Herald. After three years he moved to St. Louis and joined the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as...
(1931–1932) - Ruth Berggren (1987)
- Alexander Berkman (1929)
- M. Bevan-Brown (1950)
- F. Russell Bichowsky (1935)
- Robert C. Binkley (1930)
- Robert Montgomery BirdRobert Montgomery BirdRobert Montgomery Bird was an American novelist, playwright, and physician.-Background:Bird was born in New Castle, Delaware on February 5, 1806. After attending the New Castle Academy and Germantown Academy, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1824...
(1928) - Charles Blackburn (1980)
- John Haldane Blackie (1927)
- Robert BlatchfordRobert BlatchfordRobert Peel Glanville Blatchford was a socialist campaigner, journalist and author in the United Kingdom. He was a prominent atheist and opponent of eugenics. He was also an English patriot...
(1927) - Godfrey BlundenGodfrey BlundenGodfrey Blunden was an Australian journalist and author.Godfrey Blunden was born in Melbourne. Employed by the Sydney Daily Telegraph he was sent to England in 1941 and covered the Battle of Britain before being sent to Russia in 1942 where he covered the Stalingrad and Kharkov forces...
(1956–1968) - Sam Boal (1954)
- R. S. Boggs (1960)
- Alain BombardAlain BombardAlain Bombard was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat.Alain Bombard was born in Paris...
(1957) - Michael Bor (1984)
- Karl Borders (1927)
- James Boswell (1930)
- Jean Bothwell (1954)
- Phyllis BottomePhyllis BottomePhyllis Forbes Dennis was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome . She was born in Rochester, Kent to an American clergyman, Rev...
(1956–1962) - Pierre BoullePierre BoullePierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes .-Biography:...
(1954–1986) - Olwen Bowen (1969)
- W. E. Bowman (1956)
- George A. Boyce (1974)
- Emerson O. Bradshaw (1926)
- H. N. BrailsfordH. N. BrailsfordHenry Noel Brailsford was the most prolific British left-wing journalist of the first half of the 20th century.The son of a Methodist preacher, he was born in Yorkshire and educated in Scotland, at the High School of Dundee...
(1927) - Max BrandMax BrandFrederick Faust, aka Max Brand|thumb|rightFrederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand...
(1928) - Evan Brandon (1955)
- Brian Branston (1958)
- Herbert BreanHerbert BreanHerbert Brean was an American journalist and crime fiction writer, best known for his recurring series characters William Deacon and Reynold Frame. He was a director and former executive vice president of the Mystery Writers of America, a group for which he also taught a class in mystery writing...
(1958) - Jean de La Brète (1958)
- Ruth Brindze (1937–1973)
- George Britt (1931)
- Emma L. Brock (1961)
- Warren Edwin Brokaw (1927)
- Jocelyn BrookeJocelyn BrookeJocelyn Brooke was an English author born in Kent. He wrote several unusual and semi-autobiographical novels as well as some poetry...
(1955–1961) - Heywood BrounHeywood BrounHeywood Campbell Broun, Jr. was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and...
(1931) - Earl BrowderEarl BrowderEarl Russell Browder was an American communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1934 to 1945. He was expelled from the party in 1946.- Early years :...
(1936) - George Mackay BrownGeorge Mackay BrownGeorge Mackay Brown , was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist, whose work has a distinctly Orcadian character...
(1984–1986) - Howard BrubakerHoward BrubakerHoward Brubaker was an editor of Success and Liberator and a contributor to the New Yorker, Collier's Weekly, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and many other magazines. He published over 100 short stories and a number of non-fiction pieces on contemporary affairs,...
(1932) - Matthew J. Bruccoli (1974)
- Matt Bryant (1954)
- Lamont Buchanan (1951–1952)
- Samuel BuchlerSamuel BuchlerRabbi Samuel Buchler , was the President of the Federation of Hungarian Jews in America, in 1909 in New York. He was the Deputy Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City in 1919. He was also a lawyer and Jewish chaplain at Sing Sing prison. He was charged with grand larceny in 1932 and was...
(1933) - Henry Thomas BuckleHenry Thomas BuckleHenry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, author of an unfinished History of Civilization.- Biography :...
(1926) - Mark H. Burch (1986)
- Mary Burlingham (1943)
- Ben Lucien BurmanBen Lucien BurmanBen Lucien Burman was an American author and journalist born in Covington, Kentucky. He also fought in both World War I and World War II, and graduate from Harvard University...
(1977–1980) - Constance B. Burnett (1960–1965)
- Whit Burnett (1933–1934)
- Robert Elliott BurnsRobert Elliott BurnsRobert Elliott Burns was a World War I veteran who gained notoriety after escaping from a Georgia chain gang and writing his memoirs exposing the cruelty and injustice of the chain gang system.-Biography:...
(1932) - John Burress (1952–1958)
- William Byrd (1928)
- Harold Augustin CalahanHarold Augustin CalahanHarold Augustin Calahan or H. A. Calahan was a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy and an author on sailing....
(1935–1944) - Arthur Wallace Calhoun (1932)
- Hal Jason Calin (1954)
- Julian Callender (1958)
- William Camp (1968-1978)
- Ivan CankarIvan CankarIvan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature...
(1926) - Edward CarpenterEdward CarpenterEdward Carpenter was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist....
(1928) - Helene Carter (1949)
- Rosario CastellanosRosario CastellanosRosario Castellanos was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 , she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century...
(1960) - Frances Cavanah (1961-1965)
- Cam Cavanaugh (1978)
- William Henry ChamberlinWilliam Henry ChamberlinWilliam Henry Chamberlin was an American historian and journalist. He was the author of several books about the Cold War, Communism and US foreign policy, the most famous of which was The Russian Revolution 1917-1921...
(1945) - Winifred L. Chappell (1927)
- Virginia Chase (1971)
- Alfred ChesterAlfred ChesterAlfred Chester 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 Goliath....
(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 (1929)
- Groff ConklinGroff ConklinEdward Groff Conklin was a leading science fiction anthologist. He edited 40 anthologies of science fiction, one of mystery stories , wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects as well as a published poet...
(1951–1955) - Cyril ConnollyCyril ConnollyCyril Vernon Connolly was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon and wrote Enemies of Promise , which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of...
(1946) - Sybil Conrad (1967)
- Brian Cooper (1956–1968)
- Lettice CooperLettice CooperLettice Ulpha Cooper, , was an English writer. She was born in Eccles, Lancashire on 3 September 1897. She began to write stories when she was seven, and studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford graduating in 1918....
(1961–1963) - Matthew H. Cooper (1984–1985)
- Frank CorsaroFrank CorsaroFrank Corsaro is one of America's foremost stage directors of opera and theatre. His Broadway productions include The Night of the Iguana ....
(1978) - Irene E. Cory (1968)
- March Cost (1939–1973)
- Malcolm CowleyMalcolm CowleyMalcolm Cowley was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist.-Early life:...
(1951) - Edward P. CostiganEdward P. CostiganEdward Prentiss Costigan was a Democratic Party politician who represented Colorado in the United States Senate from 1931 until 1937. He was a founding member of the Progressive Party in Colorado in 1912....
(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 DarrowClarence DarrowClarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks and defending John T...
(1929) - Harry Davis (1944)
- Stanley L. Davis Sr. (1977)
- Jean de la Brete (1958)
- Josué de Castro (1970)
- Floyd DellFloyd DellFloyd Dell was an American author and critic.-Biography:Floyd Dell was born in Barry, Illinois on June 28, 1887....
(1929) - Beatrice Schenk de Reginiers (1963)
- Robert De Vries (1954
- Shirley Deane (1965–1968)
- Paul DehnPaul DehnPaul Dehn was a British screenwriter.-Biography and work:Dehn was born in 1912 in Manchester, England. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and attended Brasenose College, Oxford...
(1957) - William Demby (1957)
- Mary DennettMary DennettMary Coffin Ware Dennett was an American birth control activist and pacifist. She formed the Voluntary Parenthood League and the group lobbied until 1926 for a bill that would exempt birth control information and materials from federal censorship laws.In 1928 she was indicted under the Comstock...
(1930) - Nigel DennisNigel DennisNigel Forbes Dennis was an English writer, critic, playwright and magazine editor.-Early life:Born at his grandfather's house in Surrey, England, Dennis was the son of Lt.-Col...
(1955–1974) - Patrick DennisPatrick DennisPatrick Dennis was an American author. His novel Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade was one of the bestselling American books of the 20th century. In chronological vignettes "Patrick" recalls his adventures growing up under the wing of his madcap aunt, Mame Dennis...
(1955–1956) - Ann Wisema Denzer (1961)
- Roy Dickinson (1939)
- Pat Diska (1954)
- Ambrose Doskow (1935)
- Henry Burgess Drake (1929)
- John William DraperJohn William DraperJohn William Draper was an American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian, and photographer. He is credited with producing the first clear photograph of a female face and the first detailed photograph of the Moon...
(1926–1927) - Robert W. DunnRobert W. DunnRobert Williams "Bob" Dunn was an American political activist and economic researcher. Dunn was an active member of the American Civil Liberties Union from its creation, serving on that group's National Committee from 1923 and on its Board of Directors from 1933 to 1941...
(1927–1950) - James Francis Dwyer (1929)
- William Edge (1927)
- Monica EdwardsMonica EdwardsMonica Edwards 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:...
(1950) - Herbert B. Ehrmann (1933)
- Havelock EllisHavelock EllisHenry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis , was a British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and...
(1936) - Lord EltonGodfrey Elton, 1st Baron EltonGodfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton , was a British historian.-Early life:Elton was the eldest son of Edward Fiennes Elton and his wife Violet Hylda Fletcher. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he at first studies classics but later turned to history...
(1961) - Anne Emery (1946-1950)
- Duncan Emrich (1949-1950)
- Guy EndoreGuy EndoreSamuel Guy Endore , born Samuel Goldstein and also known as Harry Relis, was a novelist and screenwriter. During his career he produced a wide array of novels, screenplays, and pamphlets, both published and unpublished...
(1934) - Frederick EngelsFriedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...
(1931) - Abraham EpsteinAbraham EpsteinAbraham Epstein was a Russo-Austrian rabbinical scholar born in Staro Constantinov, Volhynia.Epstein diligently studied the works of Levinsohn, Krochmal, and S. D. Luzzatto, and when he traveled in western Europe for the first time in 1861, he made the acquaintance of J. L. Rapoport, Z. Frankel,...
(1928) - Rainer Esslen (1976)
- Jean Estoril (1961)
- Willie Snow Ethridge (1944–1973)
- Hilary and Dik Evans (1977)
- Nat Falk (1933)
- Rowena FarreRowena FarreRowena Farre was a British writer who achieved fame for her first book Seal Morning, published in 1957. The book describes how at the age of ten she and her aunt Miriam settled in a remote croft in Sutherland, Scotland, where they lived for seven years with various pets that included a common...
(1942–1964) - James T. FarrellJames T. FarrellJames Thomas Farrell was an American novelist. One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and into a television miniseries in 1979...
(1930–1957) - Howard Ferguson (1966)
- Frank Feuchtwanger (1954)
- Sara Bard Field (1949)
- Flora Fifield (1957)
- Charles G. FinneyCharles G. FinneyCharles G. Finney was an American fantasy novelist and newspaperman. His full name was Charles Grandison Finney, evidently in honor of his great-grandfather, famous evangelist Charles Grandison Finney.-Biography:...
(1937) - Alan E. Fisher (1941)
- Vardis FisherVardis FisherVardis Alvero Fisher was a well-respected writer best known for historical novels of the old West and the monumental 12-volume Testament of Man series of novels, depicting the history of humans from cave to civilization....
(1939–1966) - Bertrand Flornoy (1956)
- William Floyd (1930)
- Jonathan Titulescu FogartyJames T. FarrellJames Thomas Farrell was an American novelist. One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and into a television miniseries in 1979...
(1950) - Martha FoleyMartha FoleyMartha Foley cofounded Story magazine in 1931 with her husband Whit Burnett. She achieved some notoriety by introducing notable authors through the magazine such as J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright...
(1933–1934) - Charles Henri FordCharles Henri FordCharles Henri Ford was an American poet, novelist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist best known for his editorship of the Surrealist magazine View in New York City, and as the partner of the artist Pavel Tchelitchew...
(1945) - Ford Madox FordFord Madox FordFord Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature...
(1963) - Bertram B. Fowler (1936–1938)
- Marion Denman Frankfurter (1930)
- Edward Franklin (1964-1965)
- Myrtle Franklin (1984)
- Ellis Freeman (1940)
- Joseph FreemanJoseph Freeman (writer)Joseph "Joe" Freeman was an American writer and magazine editor. He is best remembered as a contributor and editor to The New Masses, a literary and artistic magazine closely associated with the Communist Party USA, and as a founding editor of the magazine Partisan Review.-Early years:Joseph...
(1930) - Kathleen Freeman (1975)
- Herbert E. French (1942–1945)
- Martin Freud (1958)
- Albert W. Fribourg (1934)
- Elsbeth E. Fruedenthal (1940)
- Daniel FuchsDaniel FuchsDaniel Fuchs was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist.-Biography:Daniel Fuchs was born in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family migrated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant...
(1934–1937) - James Fuchs (1926)
- Allen FuntAllen FuntAllen Funt was an American television producer, director and writer, television personality, best known as the creator and host of Candid Camera from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular television show or a television series of specials...
(1952) - Charles W. Gardner (1931)
- Gilson Gardner (1932)
- Roland Gant (1961–1968)
- Joseph GantnerJoseph GantnerJoseph Gantner was a Swiss art historian.His father Alfred Gantner, a manager at Brown Boveri, and his wife Marie , a midwife...
(1956–1965) - Eve GarnettEve GarnettEve Garnett was an English author and illustrator. She was educated at two schools in Devon and at the Alice Ottley School in Worcester...
(1937–1960) - Richard Garnett (1963–1966)
- John Gee (1960)
- Theodore GeiselDr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone....
(1937–1938) - Henry GeorgeHenry GeorgeHenry George was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land...
(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 GluckJay GluckJay Gluck , was an American archaeologist and historian of Persian art and a Japanophile....
(1963) - Rumer GoddenRumer GoddenMargaret Rumer Godden OBE was an English author of over 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden. A few of her works were co-written by her sister, Jon Godden, who wrote several novels on her own...
(1951) - Rube GoldbergRube GoldbergReuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor.He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. These devices, now known as Rube Goldberg machines, are similar to...
(1954) - Louis GoldingLouis GoldingLouis Golding was a British 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....
(1958) - Joseph Gollomb (1943–1949)
- Paul GoodmanPaul Goodman (writer)Paul Goodman was an American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, and public intellectual. Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement...
(1945–1947) - Warren Goodrich (1957)
- Lev Goomilevsky (1930)
- Carroll Graham (1930–1934)
- Garrett Graham (1930–1944)
- Kathleen B. Granger (1966)
- C. Hartley GrattanC. Hartley GrattanClinton Hartley Grattan 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:...
(1929) - Genevieve Greer (1946)
- Marcus Griffin (1933)
- Paul Griffith (1972)
- Geoffrey GrigsonGeoffrey GrigsonGeoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson was a British writer. He was born in Pelynt, a village near Looe in Cornwall.-Life:...
(1959–1969) - Jane GrigsonJane GrigsonJane Grigson was a notable English cookery writer.-Life and writings:...
(1964–1967) - Robert Gross (1979)
- John Groth (1945)
- Irmgard Groth-Kimball (1954)
- Ernest GrueningErnest GrueningErnest Henry Gruening was an American journalist and Democrat who was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969.-Early life:...
(1931) - Dorothy Guck (1968)
- Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1943)
- Ernst HaeckelErnst HaeckelThe "European War" became known as "The Great War", and it was not until 1920, in the book "The First World War 1914-1918" by Charles à Court Repington, that the term "First World War" was used as the official name for the conflict.-Research:...
(1926–1927) - Lynn and Dora B. Haines (1930)
- Charlotte HaldaneCharlotte HaldaneCharlotte Haldane was a British feminist author. Her second husband was the biologist J.B.S. Haldane.- Biography :...
(1950) - T. J. Hale (1984)
- Thomas J. Hamilton (1943)
- Charles H. Hamlin (1927–1936)
- William A. Hamm (1927)
- Eric M. HammelEric M. HammelEric M. Hammel is a military historian, with a focus on the military campaigns of theUnited States Marine Corps, and military action in World War II.-Bibliography:* Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War ISBN 0-8149-0856-x...
(1981) - Cliff Hankin (1968)
- Alberta Pierson Hannum (1969)
- Jack Hardy (1927)
- Allanah Harper (1976–1987)
- Reed HarrisReed HarrisReed Harris was an American writer, publisher, and U.S. government official.Harris was born on November 5, 1909, in New York City. He attended Staunton Military Academy and in 1932 graduated from Columbia College, where he edited the school newspaper, the Columbia Spectator...
(1932) - Elsie Hart (1941)
- Ernest H. Hart (1977)
- Marion R. HartMarion Rice HartMarion Rice Hart was a sportswoman and author.Hart was one of six children of Isaac Rice.Hart was the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a masters in geology from Columbia University.As an aviatrix, Hart made seven solo...
(1938–1953)) - Rupert Hart-DavisRupert Hart-DavisSir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis was an English publisher, editor and man of letters. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd...
(1985) - Ilma Haskins (1973)
- Frieda Hauswirth (1930–1932)
- H. F. HeardGerald HeardHenry Fitzgerald Heard commonly called Gerald Heard was an historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and over 35 books....
(1941–1980) - John HearneJohn Edgar Colwell HearneJohn Edgar Colwell Hearne was a white Jamaican novelist, journalist, and teacher.Hearne's first published work was the novel Voices under the Window, issued in 1955...
(1961) - Francois Hebert-Stevens (1956)
- Julius F. Hecker (1927)
- M. H. Hedges (1927)
- Eugene Heimler (1949–1960)
- Maurice Helbrant (1941)
- John Held, Jr.John Held, Jr.John Held Jr. was an American cartoonist and illustrator. One of the best known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, Held created cheerful art showing his characters dancing, motoring and engaging in fun-filled activities...
(1930–1937) - Ernest HemingwayErnest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
(1945–1949) - Theda O. Henle (1971)
- John M. Henry (1952)
- George W. Herald (1943)
- Fred Herman (1943)
- Garnett Hewitt (1981)
- William HeyenWilliam HeyenWilliam Helmuth Heyen is an American poet, editor, and literary critic. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Suffolk County...
(1974–1981) - Paul R. Heyl (1933)
- Earle Hill (1972)
- Howard Hillman (1975–1981)
- Helen Hinckley (1946)
- Thomas HindeThomas Hinde (novelist)Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet , better known as Thomas Hinde, is a British novelist.-Life:Thomas Hinde was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and educated at Winchester School and University College, Oxford. After service in the Royal Navy, he worked briefly for the Inland Revenue and then for...
(1964–1966) - Ira A. Hirschmann (1946)
- Amy Hogeboom (1945–1956)
- Elizabeth Sanxay HoldingElizabeth Sanxay HoldingElisabeth Sanxay Holding was an American novelist and short story writer who primarily wrote detective novels in the hardboiled school of detective fiction.-Life:...
(1930) - Janice Holland (1958)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1929)
- Ralph Y. Hopton (1934)
- M. A. DeWolfe Howe (1946)
- Jessie Wallace HughanJessie Wallace HughanJessie Wallace Hughan 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 sorority for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League,...
(1928) - Rolfe HumphriesRolfe HumphriesGeorge Rolfe Humphries was a poet, translator, and teacher.-Life:...
(1937) - Peter Hunt (1934)
- Edward HunterEdward Hunter (U.S. journalist)Edward Hunter was an American journalist, author and intelligence agent. He is credited with popularizing the use of the term "brainwashing" in English, and collected a large number of examples of Chinese Communist propaganda targeted at the population in the immediate post-revolution...
(1951) - Joan Hurling (1979–1981)
- Julian HuxleyJulian HuxleySir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis...
(1956) - René HuygheRené HuygheRené Huyghe was a French writer on the history, psychology and philosophy of art. He was also a curator at the Louvre's department of paintings , a professor at the Collège de France and from 1960 a member of the Académie française...
(1956) - V. S. Ianovskii (1972)
- William InglisWilliam InglisLieutenant General Sir William Inglis, KCB was a British officer of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....
(1932) - Ann IrelandAnn IrelandAnn Ireland is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada....
(1986) - Susan IsaacsSusan Sutherland IsaacsSusan Sutherland Isaacs, CBE was a Lancashire-born educational psychologist and psychoanalyst. She published studies on the intellectual and social development of children and promoted the nursery school movement...
(1938) - Panait IstratiPanait IstratiPanait Istrati was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.-Early life:...
(1930–1931) - Vsevolod Ivanov Vsevolod IvanovVsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov was a notable Soviet writer praised for the colourful adventure tales set in the Asiatic part of Russia during the Civil War.-Biography:...
(1935) - Gardner Jackson (1930)
- Geoffrey JacksonGeoffrey JacksonSir Geoffrey Holt Seymour Jackson, KCMG was a British diplomat and writer.Jackson received his education at Bolton School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Service in 1937, his first ambassadorship coming in 1957, a post in Honduras. In 1969, he became ambassador in Uruguay...
(1974) - Robert Jackson (1976)
- Bernard Jacobson (1979)
- Moritz A. JagendorfMoritz JagendorfMoritz A. Jagendorf was an Austrian-American folklore author.Jagendorf was born in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary. He moved to New York around the age of 15. He earned his doctoral dental studies degree in 1916 from Columbia University...
(1938–1980) - Leland H. Jenks (1928)
- Chris Jenkyns (1954)
- Edgar JepsonEdgar JepsonEdgar Alfred Jepson was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R...
(1929) - Eyvind JohnsonEyvind JohnsonEyvind Johnson, was a Swedish writer and author. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.Johnson was born Olof Edvin...
(1960–1971) - Eugene JolasEugene JolasJohn George Eugene Jolas was a writer, translator and literary critic.-Biography:Eugene Jolas was born in Union City, New Jersey, but grew up in Forbach in Elsass-Lothringen , to which his family returned when he was two years old. He spent periods of his adult life living in both the U.S...
(1949) - Bruce E. Jones (1987)
- Philip D. Jordan (1957)
- Franz KafkaFranz KafkaFranz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
(1946) - Sholom J. Kahn (1957)
- Arthur KalletArthur KalletArthur Kallet was a leading consumer advocate.An engineer, Kallet co-authored a 1933 book entitled 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs and Cosmetics with fellow engineer Frederick Schlink.In 1936 he left as director of Consumers Research after its head F.J...
(1935) - David Karp (1953)
- Lila KarpLila KarpLila Karp Lila Karp was an activist, writer, teacher and feminist. She is known for her novel The Queen is in the Garbage, and is profiled in the book "Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975". She was among the second-wave feminists in New York in the 1960s and was a member of The Feminists...
(1969) - Sara Kasdan (1957–1985)
- Monica Kehoe (1957–1961)
- Rick Kemmer (1975)
- Edna Kenton (1954)
- John Killinger (1980)
- George W. Kirchwey (1929)
- Elizabeth Kirtland (1958)
- Beate KlarsfeldSerge and Beate KlarsfeldSerge and Beate Klarsfeld are activists known for engaging in Holocaust documentation and anti-Nazi activism...
(1975) - George KleinsingerGeorge KleinsingerGeorge Kleinsinger was an American composer from San Bernardino, California, best known for his collaboration with Paul Tripp on the 1940s children's song "Tubby the Tuba". He also wrote the music for the phonograph record Archy & Mehitabal and the Broadway musical based on the record, Shinbone...
(1948) - Samuel G. and Esther B. Kling (1947)
- Melvin M. Knight (1928)
- Alexandra KollontaiAlexandra KollontaiAlexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. In 1919 she became the first female government minister in Europe...
(1929) - Hazel Krantz (1961–1968)
- Miroslav KrležaMiroslav KrležaMiroslav Krleža was a leading Croatian and Yugoslav writer and the dominant figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom and the Republic . He has often been proclaimed the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Miroslav Krleža was born in Zagreb, modern-day...
(1972–1976) - Peter KropotkinPeter KropotkinPrince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, economist, geographer, author and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between...
(1926–1936) - Joseph KrumgoldJoseph KrumgoldJoseph Quincy Krumgold was a United States author and scriptwriter. He was the first author to receive the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature twice. Lois Lowry, Elizabeth George Speare, Katherine Paterson, and E. L. Konigsburg have also achieved this honor...
(1935) - Joseph Kloman (1934)
- Wolfgang KoeppenWolfgang KoeppenWolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen is one of the best known German authors of the post-war period.-Life:Koeppen was born out of wedlock in Greifswald to a seamstress. His father never accepted the fatherhood formally...
(1961) - Delia Kuhn (1963)
- Shiv K. KumarShiv KumarShiv K. Kumar is an Indian poet, playwright, novelist, and short story writer .-Early life and education:Shiv K Kumar was born in Lahore in 1921, and was matriculated from Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High School and did his M.A. at Forman Christian College, Lahore .In 1943, he joined D.A.V. College...
(1983) - Suzanne LabinSuzanne LabinSuzanne Labin was a French Socialist writer and political scientist, known particularly for her anti-communism, anti-totalitarianism and pro-democracy writings.-Writings and reviews:...
(1955) - Harry W. LaidlerHarry W. LaidlerHarry Wellington Laidler was an American socialist functionary, writer, magazine editor, and politician. He is best remembered as Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy, successor to the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and for his close political association with perennial...
(1926–1937) - Alice Elinor LambertAlice Elinor LambertAlice Elinor Lambert was an American romance writer.In the 1930s, she self-published with Vanguard Press at least three romance novels: Hospital Nocture, Women Are Like That, and Lost Fragrance, all later re-published by Dell Romance. In 1904, she enjoyed a brief summer romance with Canadian...
(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 LeckyWilliam Edward Hartpole LeckyWilliam Edward Hartpole Lecky, OM was an Irish historian.-Early life:Born at Newtown Park, near Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Hartpole Lecky, a landowner....
(1926–1927) - Jack J. Leedy (1986)
- Thomas B. Leekley (1956-1965)
- John LehmannJohn LehmannRudolf John Frederick Lehmann was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine.The fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of Helen Lehmann, novelist Rosamond...
(1970) - Madeleine L'EngleMadeleine L'EngleMadeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time...
(1945–1968) - Vladimir Ilyich LeninVladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
(1926) - Branko Lenski (1965)
- Frank Leslie (1960)
- Myron Levoy (1968)
- Grant LewiGrant LewiWilliam Grant Lewi II 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 in America".-Life:...
(1935) - Arthur H. Lewis (1955)
- Leslie Lieber (1954)
- Alfred Lief (1929-1931)
- Emanuel LitvinoffEmanuel LitvinoffEmanuel Litvinoff was a British writer and human rights campaigner, and a well known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature.-Background:...
(1959) - Robin Lloyd (1976)
- Amelia Lobsenz (1951)
- Edith Raymond Locke (1965)
- Robin Bruce LockhartRobin Bruce LockhartRobin Bruce Lockhart was a British author.The son of the British spy R. H. Bruce Lockhart, he wrote the 1967 book Ace of Spies about the super-spy Sidney Reilly, which was made into a 1983 television miniseries Reilly: Ace of Spies, starring Sam Neill...
(1986) - Jack LondonJack LondonJohn Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
(1926) - Gabrielle LordGabrielle LordGabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime. She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers.-Life:Lord was born in Sydney...
(1983) - Richard Lourie (1973)
- Constance Loveland (1958)
- Bruce Lowery (1961-1972)
- Mochtar LubisMochtar LubisMochtar Lubis was an Indonesian Batak journalist and novelist who co-founded Indonesia Raya. His novel Senja di Jakarta was the first Indonesian novel to be translated into English. He was a critic of Sukarno and was imprisoned by him...
(1963) - Christopher Lucas (1974)
- Ferdinand LundbergFerdinand LundbergFerdinand Lundberg was a 20th century economist and journalist who studied the history of American wealth and power.-Background:...
(1937) - Mary LutyensMary LutyensEdith Mary Lutyens was a British author who is principally known for her authoritative biographical works on the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.-Early life:...
(1965–1967) - John Henry Lyons (1942)
- Coleman McAlister (1929)
- Mary Frances McBride (1941)
- Neil McCallum (1951)
- Josephine McCarthy (1944)
- Marshall McClintock (1939–1941)
- Dwight MacdonaldDwight MacdonaldDwight Macdonald was an American writer, editor, film critic, social critic, philosopher, and political radical.-Early life and career:...
(1948) - Bruce McGinnis (1979–1981)
- Thomas McGrathThomas McGrath (poet)Thomas Matthew McGrath, was a celebrated American poet....
(1960) - Ralph McInernyRalph McInernyRalph Matthew McInerny was a Roman Catholic, American, philosopher, University professor, and prolific author, including fiction of which some appeared under the pseudonyms of Harry Austin, Matthew FitzRalph, Ernan Mackey, Edward Mackin, and Monica Quill, and mysteries of which his best known is...
(1977-1986) - Compton MackenzieCompton MackenzieSir Compton Mackenzie, OBE was a writer and a Scottish nationalist.-Background:Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, but many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname, starting with his grandfather Henry Compton, a well-known...
(1928) - Norman MacKenzieNorman MacKenzieNorman Archibald Macrae MacKenzie, CC, CMG, MM, CD, QC, FRSC was the President of the University of British Columbia from 1944 to 1962, and a Senator from 1966 to 1969.-Biography:...
(1965) - Silas Bent McKinley (1941)
- Jim McKone (1966–1970)
- Robin McKown (1963)
- Marshall McLuhanMarshall McLuhanHerbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...
(1951) - Francis Elsmer McMahon (1945)
- E. S. Madden (1961)
- Leroy K. Magness (1975)
- Cecil Maiden (1960–1962)
- Gladys MalvernGladys MalvernGladys Malvern was an American vaudeville and Broadway actress, radio script writer, and author. As a child actress, she famously appeared in the 1908 Broadway production of The Man Who Stood Still. Gladys often collaborated on stage with her younger sister Corinne Malvern, who also illustrated...
(1964–1972) - Seon Manley (1959-1986)
- Alicia MarkovaAlicia MarkovaDame Alicia Markova, DBE, DMus, was an English ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the...
(1961) - Margaret Alexander Marsh (1928)
- W. Lockwood Marsh (1929)
- Ben Martin (1939–1940)
- Ron Martin (1986)
- Linda Marvin (1943)
- Karl MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
(1926–1931) - Ray Mathew (1983)
- Norman H. Matson (1930)
- Julian MayfieldJulian MayfieldJulian Hudson Mayfield was an American actor, director, writer, lecturer and Civil Rights activist.-Early life:...
(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 MolnárFerenc MolnárLanguageFerenc Molnár was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name was Franz Molnar...
(1929) - Paolo Monelli (1954)
- R. H. Montgomery (1940)
- Nancy Moore (1957–1963)
- Henry Morgan (1964)
- Peter MorlandMax BrandFrederick Faust, aka Max Brand|thumb|rightFrederick Schiller Faust was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand...
(1928) - William MorrisWilliam MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
(1926) - Nancy Brysson Morrison (1960–1969)
- Lona Mosk (1934)
- Marie Murphy Mott (1963)
- A. A. Murray (1957–1959)
- William MurrayWilliam Murray (writer)William Murray was an American fiction editor and staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years. He wrote a series of mystery novels set in the world of horse racing, many featuring Shifty Lou Anderson, a professional magician and horseplayer...
(1955) - Paul Myers (1986–1987)
- V. S. NaipaulV. S. NaipaulSir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC is a Nobel prize-winning Indo-Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism...
(1959–1960) - Lensey NamiokaLensey NamiokaLensey Chao Namioka is a children's book author and mathematician. She is best known for the short story -Awards:* Washington State Governor's Writers Award, 1976, 1990 Island of Ogres...
(1979–1986) - Kathryn Natale (1977)
- Terry NationTerry NationTerry Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist.He is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who...
(1977–1978) - Harry Edward Neal (1954)
- Alan Neame (1961)
- Scott NearingScott NearingScott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living.-The early years:...
(1926–1932) - Richard L. NeubergerRichard L. NeubergerRichard Lewis Neuberger was a U.S. journalist, author, and politician during the middle of the 20th century. A native of Oregon, he would write for The New York Times before and after a stint in the United States Army during World War II...
(1937) - Martin Andersen NexøMartin Andersen NexøMartin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was the first significant Danish author to depict the working class in his writings, and the first great Danish socialist, later communist, writer.-Biography:...
(1938) - Aage Krarup NielsenAage Krarup NielsenAage Krarup Nielsen was a travel writer.In the days before the Second World War, Nielsen traveled the world...
(1936) - Edna Nixon (1961)
- Francis Noel-BakerFrancis Noel-BakerFrancis Edward Noel-Baker was a British Labour Party politician. His father was Labour MP and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Philip Noel-Baker....
(1955) - Seiji Noma (1934)
- Suzanne Normand (1929)
- E. S. Northrop (1933)
- Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
(1963–1979) - Lee Olds (1960)
- Patrick O'Mara (1933)
- Mark Oliver (1961)
- Franz OppenheimerFranz OppenheimerFranz Oppenheimer was a German-Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state.-Personal life:...
(1926) - Ralph Y. Opton (1934)
- Evelyn Page (1964)
- Massimo PallottinoMassimo PallottinoMassimo Pallottino was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art....
(1955) - Bissell B. Palmer (1935)
- Dewey H. Palmer (1938)
- E. Clephan Palmer (1954)
- Rachel Lynn Palmer (1936)
- Derek ParkerDerek ParkerDerek Parker 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:...
(1970) - Albert Parry (1976)
- Catherine Owens Peare (1951–1987)
- Moshe Pearlman (1964)
- Roderick Peattie (1942–1952)
- Kendal J. PeelTom StaceyTom Stacey is a British novelist, publisher, man of letters , traveller/kingmaker, and penologist.-Early life:...
(1983) - Ralph Barton PerryRalph Barton PerryRalph Barton Perry was an American philosopher.-Career:...
(1940–1944) - Roger PeyrefitteRoger PeyrefitteRoger Peyrefitte was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and gossipy non-fiction, and a defender of gay rights.-Life and work:...
(1953) - M. C. Phillips (1934)
- Robert PhillipsRobert Phillips (poet)Robert Phillips is an American poet and professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of more than 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, poetry criticism and other works. In 1998 he was named a John and Rebecca Moores Scholar at the university.-References:...
(1967–1979) - Morris H. Philipson (1964)
- Carl Pidoll (1956-1961)
- F. A. Plattner (1957)
- Marcel Pobé (1956)
- Léon PoliakovLeon PoliakovLéon Poliakov was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.Born into a Russian Jewish family, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France....
(1965–1986) - Louis Freeland PostLouis Freeland PostLouis Freeland Post was the Assistant United States Secretary of Labor during the closing year of the Wilson administration, the period of the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare, where he had responsibility for the Bureau of Immigration.-Biography:Post opposed immigration restrictions and forcefully...
(1926–1930) - R. W. PostgateRaymond PostgateRaymond William Postgate was an English socialist, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist and gourmet.-Early life:...
(1926–1936) - Harford Powel (1949)
- Newman Powell (1977)
- Anthony PowellAnthony PowellAnthony Dymoke Powell CH, CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975....
(1934) - Fred Powledge (1979)
- Stanley Price (1961)
- Henry F. PringleHenry F. PringleHenry Fowles Pringle was an American historian and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his 1931 biography of Theodore Roosevelt....
(1928) - Eric Protter (1965–1985)
- P. J. ProudhonPierre-Joseph ProudhonPierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. He was a member of the French Parliament, and he was the first person to call himself an "anarchist". He is considered among the most influential theorists and organisers of anarchism...
(1927) - John Purcell (1944–1982)
- Barbara PymBarbara PymBarbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In 1977 her career was revived when two prominent writers, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin, nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century...
(1957) - Peter RabePeter RabePeter Rabe aka Peter Rabinowitsch, , was a German American writer who also used the nom de plumes Marco Malaponte and J. T. MacCargo...
(1955) - Gerald Raftery (1964–1967)
- Emily Raimondi (1974)
- Vance RandolphVance RandolphVance Randolph was a famous folklorist who studied the folklore of the Ozarks in particular. He wrote a number of books on topics including the Ozarks, Little Blue Books, and juvenile fiction....
(1926–1934) - Felix RayHoward BrubakerHoward Brubaker was an editor of Success and Liberator and a contributor to the New Yorker, Collier's Weekly, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and many other magazines. He published over 100 short stories and a number of non-fiction pieces on contemporary affairs,...
(1932) - Grantly Dick-ReadGrantly Dick-ReadGrantly Dick-Read was a British obstetrician who is regarded by many as the father of natural childbirth movement. He dedicated his life to educating expectant parents about the benefits of giving birth naturally, with as little intervention from obstetricians and health professionals as possible...
(1950) - John Reed (1927)
- Rosser ReevesRosser ReevesRosser Reeves was a hugely successful American advertising executive and pioneer of television advertising. He believed the purpose of advertising is to sell. He insisted that an advertisement or commercial should show off the value of a product, not the cleverness of a copywriter. His most...
(1980) - Guenter ReimannGünter ReimannGünter Reimann was an expert on finance and currencies as founder & editor of International Reports, a New York based weekly publication he sold to the London Financial Times in 1983...
(1939–1942) - Ben ReitmanBen ReitmanBen Lewis Reitman was an American anarchist and physician to the poor . He is best remembered today as radical Emma Goldman's lover.Reitman was a flamboyant, eccentric character...
(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 RuskinJohn RuskinJohn Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
(1926) - Robert W. Russell (1962–1973)
- Peggy Rutherfoord (1958)
- Nicola SaccoSacco and VanzettiFerdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States...
(1920) - Gordon Sager (1950)
- A. S. Sachs (1927)
- William St. Clair (1977)
- Jany Saint-Marcoux (1958)
- William SansomWilliam SansomWilliam Sansom FRSL was a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose-style...
(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 SchwartzDelmore SchwartzDelmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer from Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:Schwartz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when Schwartz was nine, and their divorce had a profound effect on him. Later, in 1930,...
(1979) - Gabriel ScottGabriel ScottGabriel Scott 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 writer and composer Caroline Mathilde Schytte...
(1928) - Hardiman ScottJack Hardiman ScottJack Hardiman Scott was a distinguished British journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's first Political Editor from 1970 to 1975....
(1984–1986) - Grace Scribner (1927)
- Ronald SearleRonald SearleRonald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, is a British artist and cartoonist, best known as the creator of St Trinian's School. He is also the co-author of the Molesworth series....
(1954–1959) - Laurette SéjournéLaurette SéjournéLaurette Séjourné 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 culture hero, Quetzalcoatl....
(1956) - Elliot Selby (1960)
- Margaret Cabell Self (1966)
- Ramon J. SenderRamón José Sender GarcésRamón José Sender Garcés was a Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist.-Life:Ramón J. Sender was born in Chalamera, Huesca Province in the autonomous region of Aragon in Spain. In 1923 he was obliged to serve in the Spanish military and take part in the Spain Morocco Rif War, which lasted from...
(1948) - Toni Sender (1939)
- E. K. Seth-Smith (1957)
- Burr ShaferBurr ShaferBurr Shafer was an American cartoonist. His cartoon collections featured the character of J. Wesley Smith appearing in various historical settings. His historical satires moved U.S. President Harry S...
(1950–1963) - Moshe ShamirMoshe ShamirMoshe Shamir was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure.-Biography:...
(1958) - William V. ShannonWilliam V. ShannonWilliam Vincent Shannon was a member of the editorial board of the New York Times and U.S. ambassador to Ireland under President Jimmy Carter ....
(1950) - George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
(1926–1957) - M. P. ShielM. P. ShielMatthew Phipps Shiel was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name....
(1928–1937) - Lee ShippeyLee ShippeyHenry Lee Shippey , who wrote under the name Lee Shippey, was an author and journalist whose romance with a French woman during World War I caused a sensation in the United States as a "famous war triangle." Shippey later wrote a popular column in the Los Angeles Times for 22 years.-Early...
(1948) - Hilda Simon (1969–1978)
- William Gayley SimpsonWilliam Gayley Simpson-Early life:The oldest of three children, he was born July 23rd, 1892, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended Lafayette College and graduated in 1912 with Phi Beta Kappa standing and as valedictorian of his class, proceeding to attend Union Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1915,...
(1935) - Dorothy Rice Sims (1944)
- Upton SinclairUpton SinclairUpton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S...
(1927–1931) - Israel Joshua SingerIsrael Joshua SingerIsrael Joshua Singer was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisroel Yehoyshue Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman...
(1938–1970) - L. E. Sissman (1975)
- Paula Elizabeth Sits (1957)
- Edith SitwellEdith SitwellDame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was a British poet and critic.-Background:Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the oldest child and only daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall; he was an expert on genealogy and landscaping...
(1946–1970) - Caroline Slade (1936–1948)
- Cornelius Slater (1987)
- Florence Slobodkin (1958–1986)
- Louis SlobodkinLouis SlobodkinLouis Slobodkin , born in Albany, New York was a sculptor, author and illustrator of numerous children's books....
(1944–1986) - Agnes SmedleyAgnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley was an American journalist and writer best known for her semi-autobiographical novelDaughter of Earth. She was also known for her sympathetic chronicling of the Chinese revolution...
(1938) - Jessica SmithJessica Smith (editor)Jessica Smith was an American editor and activist.Daughter of the painter Walter Granville-Smith of New York, Jessica Granville-Smith, as she was known in her early life, graduated from Swarthmore College and championed women's suffrage...
(1928) - Pauline SmithPauline SmithPauline Janet Smith is known as one of South Africa's greatest writers.Pauline Smith was born on 2 April 1882 in Oudtshoorn, South Africa, and grew up in the Little Karoo. At the age of thirteen she was sent to boarding school in England and never lived permanently in South Africa again, though...
(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 StoutRex StoutRex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the...
(1929–1931) - Flora Strousse (1962)
- Showell StylesShowell StylesFrank Showell Styles was a Welsh writer and mountaineer.Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield. Known to his friends as 'Pip', Showell Styles' childhood was spent in the hills of North Wales where he became an avid...
(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 TaylorGordon Rattray TaylorGordon Rattray Taylor 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 Evolution Mystery.-Biography:Gordon Rattray Taylor was born in Eastbourne on 11 January 1911,...
(1954) - Jay L. B. Taylor (1926)
- Courtenay Terrett (1930)
- Harrison Cook Thomas (1927)
- Norman ThomasNorman ThomasNorman Mattoon Thomas was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.-Early years:...
(1926–1937) - Francis J. Thompson (1953–1967)
- Henry David ThoreauHenry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist...
(1930) - Henry and Freda Thornton (1939)
- Doris G. Tobias (1948)
- Leo TolstoyLeo TolstoyLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
(1926) - John Tully (1934)
- Geoffrey TreaseGeoffrey TreaseGeoffrey Trease was a prolific writer, publishing 113 books between 1934 and 1997 . His work has been translated into 20 languages...
(1945–1968) - Newell R. Tripp (1927)
- Paul TrippPaul TrippPaul Tripp was a musician, author and television and film actor born in New York City. He was a partner of fellow composer George Kleinsinger. Tripp was the creator of 1945's "Tubby the Tuba", a children's song that has become his best-known work. Early in his career, he was the host of CBS' Mr....
(1948) - Johannes Troyer (1957)
- Benjamin TuckerBenjamin TuckerBenjamin Ricketson Tucker was a proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century, and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.-Summary:Tucker says that he became an anarchist at the age of 18...
(1926) - Cyril T. Tucker (1965)
- Catherine Turlington (1948)
- Allan Turpin (1965)
- Parker TylerParker TylerHarrison Parker Tyler, better known as Parker Tyler was an American author, poet, and film critic. Tyler had a relationship with underground filmmaker Charles Boultenhouse from 1945 until his death...
(1948) - Joseph W. Valentine (1963)
- Joseph Van Raalte (1931)
- Bartolomeo VanzettiSacco and VanzettiFerdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States...
(1931) - Thorstein VeblenThorstein VeblenThorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement...
(1926) - Ilias Venezis (1956)
- Ange Vlachos (1964)
- VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
(1929) - Robert Emmet Wall (1981)
- Stephen Walton (1967)
- James Peter WarbasseJames Peter WarbasseDr. James Peter Warbasse was an American surgeon and advocate for cooperatives. He founded the Cooperative League of the United States of America and was its president from 1916 to 1941.-Early life:Warbasse was born on November 22, 1866 in Newton, New Jersey to Joseph Warbasse and...
(1927) - Betty Waterton (1980)
- Alan WattsAlan WattsAlan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York...
(1953–1959) - Edith Lucie Weart (1948)
- Harriett Weaver (1974)
- Etta Webb (1937)
- H. G. WellsH. G. WellsHerbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
(1927–1940) - Virginia Weng (1980)
- Bruce Wery (1961)
- Charles H. WesleyCharles H. WesleyCharles Harris Wesley was a noted African American historian, educator, writer and author.-Early life and education:...
(1927) - Leon Whipple (1927)
- Leon F. Whitney (1954)
- Bette Ward Widney (1968)
- Ester WierEster WierEster Wier was an American writer.- Works :* The Loner, 1963* Gifts of the Mountains, 1963* The Rumptydoolers, 1964* Easy Does It, 1965* The Barrel, 1966* The Space Hut, 1967...
(1964) - Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
(1928) - Ira S. Wile (1934)
- Geoffrey WillansGeoffrey WillansHerbert Geoffrey Willans , an English author and journalist, is best known as the co-creator, with the illustrator Ronald Searle, of Nigel Molesworth, the "goriller of 3b and curse of St. Custard's"....
(1954–1959) - Annie Williams-Heller (1944)
- Calder WillinghamCalder WillinghamCalder Baynard Willingham, Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter. He cowrote several notable screenplays, including Paths of Glory and One-Eyed Jacks ....
(1947–1969) - Lucy L. W. Wilson (1928)
- John K. Winkler (1929–1934)
- Stephen WinstenStephen WinstenStephen Winsten was the name adopted by Samuel Weinstein, one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group of young Jewish men and future writers in London's East End in the years before World War I . In the First World War he was a conscientious objector, and imprisoned in Bedford and Reading gaols...
(1949) - Ann Woddin (1985)
- Charles Erskine Scott WoodCharles Erskine Scott WoodCharles Erskine Scott Wood was an author, civil libertarian, soldier, and attorney. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, Heavenly Discourse.-Early life:...
(1927–1949) - Clement WoodClement WoodClement Richardson Wood was an American writer.He mainly wrote poetry, but he also wrote Tom Sawyer Grows Up, a sequel to Twain's work....
(1926–1930) - James Wood (1959–1969)
- William Wordsworth (1983)
- John M. WorkJohn M. WorkJohn McClelland Work 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 propaganda tracts of the first decade of the 20th Century...
(1927) - Dale Worsley (1980)
- Wladimir S. Woytinsky (1961–1962)
- A. D. WraightDolly Walker-WraightDolly Walker-Wraight was a British school teacher and writer, notable for her support of Marlovian theory, the view that Christopher Marlowe was the true author of Shakespeare's works.-Life:...
(1965) - Helena WrightHelena Rosa WrightHelena Rosa Wright was a British-born pioneer and influential figure in birth control and family planning both in the Britain and internationally. With her husband she undertook missionary work in China for five years. She qualified as a medical doctor, later specialising in contraception medicine...
(1931–1932) - Violet Wyndham (1958-1964)
- Yaacov Yannai (1965)
- Vassily S. Yanovsky (1972)
- Avrahm YarmolinskyAvrahm YarmolinskyAvrahm Yarmolinsky was an author, translator and the husband of Babette Deutsch.Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library for roughly three decades...
(1928) - E. Yohan (1936)
- Robert York (1986)
- Art YoungArt YoungArthur "Art" Young was an American cartoonist and writer. He is most famous for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left wing political magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917.-Early Years:...
(1936) - Hugh Zachary (1986)
- Arthur Zaidenberg (1956–1968)
- Marya ZaturenskaMarya ZaturenskaMarya Zaturenska was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.-Life:She was born in Kiev and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to...
(1974)
Social Science Classics
- 1.John RuskinJohn RuskinJohn Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
, Ruskin's Views of Social Science. Introduction by J. Fuchs, editor. - 2. Leo TolstoiLeo TolstoyLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
, 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 MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
, The Essentials of Marx. Introduction by Algernon LeeAlgernon LeeAlgernon H. Lee was an American socialist politician and educator, best known as the Director of Education at the Rand School of Social Science for 35 years.-Early years:...
, editor. (1926) - 5. Nikolai Lenin, Imperialism and The State and Revolution. (November 1926)
- 6. Peter KropotkinPeter KropotkinPrince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, economist, geographer, author and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between...
, The Conquest of Bread. - 7. Peter Kropotkin, Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets. Introduction by Roger Baldwin.
- 8. Jack LondonJack LondonJohn Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
, London's Essays of Revolt. Introduction by Leonard D. Abbott. (December 1926) - 9. H.G. Wells, Social Emancipation. Introduction by Harry W. LaidlerHarry W. LaidlerHarry Wellington Laidler was an American socialist functionary, writer, magazine editor, and politician. He is best remembered as Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy, successor to the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and for his close political association with perennial...
, editor. - 10. Edward CarpenterEdward CarpenterEdward Carpenter was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist....
, Love's Coming of Age. (December 1926) - 11. Thorstein VeblenThorstein VeblenThorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement...
, The Theory of the Leisure Class. (October 1926; first published in 1899) - 12. Franz OppenheimerFranz OppenheimerFranz Oppenheimer was a German-Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state.-Personal life:...
, The State. - 13. Henry GeorgeHenry GeorgeHenry George was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land...
, Progress and Poverty. (abridged) - 14. Benjamin R. Tucker, Individual Liberty. Introduction by C.L.S., editor.
- 15. Robert BlatchfordRobert BlatchfordRobert Peel Glanville Blatchford was a socialist campaigner, journalist and author in the United Kingdom. He was a prominent atheist and opponent of eugenics. He was also an English patriot...
, 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 WarbasseJames Peter WarbasseDr. James Peter Warbasse was an American surgeon and advocate for cooperatives. He founded the Cooperative League of the United States of America and was its president from 1916 to 1941.-Early life:Warbasse was born on November 22, 1866 in Newton, New Jersey to Joseph Warbasse and...
, What is Cooperation? - 53. Louis F. Post, What is the Single Tax?
- 54. Jessie W. HughanJessie Wallace HughanJessie Wallace Hughan 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 sorority for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League,...
, What is Socialism? (October 1928) - 55. Alexander BerkmanAlexander BerkmanAlexander Berkman was an anarchist known for his political activism and writing. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century....
, 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 by that title written by the General Secretary of the Communist Party USACommunist Party USAThe Communist Party USA is a Marxist political party in the United States, established in 1919. It has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement....
, Earl BrowderEarl BrowderEarl Russell Browder was an American communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1934 to 1945. He was expelled from the party in 1946.- Early years :...
.
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 ThomasNorman ThomasNorman Mattoon Thomas was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.-Early years:...
, eds., New Tactics in Social Conflict: A Symposium. (1926; published for the League for Industrial DemocracyLeague for Industrial DemocracyThe League for Industrial Democracy , from 1960-1965 known as the Students for a Democratic Society , was founded in 1905 by a group of notable socialists including Harry W. Laidler, Jack London, Norman Thomas, Upton Sinclair, and J.G. Phelps Stokes...
) - 65. Scott Nearing, The British General Strike. (late 1926)
- 66. Upton SinclairUpton SinclairUpton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S...
, The Profits of Religion. - 67. John M. WorkJohn M. WorkJohn McClelland Work 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 propaganda tracts of the first decade of the 20th Century...
, 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 HuebschB. W. HuebschB. W. Huebsch was an American publisher settled in New York in the early 20th century. He was the first publisher in the United States of James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. He also published, in 1919, the first edition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio . In 1925 he merged his firm with Viking...
in 1923) - 72. Scott Nearing, Where is Civilization Going? (April 1927)
- 73. Robert W. DunnRobert W. DunnRobert Williams "Bob" Dunn was an American political activist and economic researcher. Dunn was an active member of the American Civil Liberties Union from its creation, serving on that group's National Committee from 1923 and on its Board of Directors from 1933 to 1941...
, 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 WoodCharles Erskine Scott WoodCharles Erskine Scott Wood was an author, civil libertarian, soldier, and attorney. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, Heavenly Discourse.-Early life:...
, Heavenly Discourse. Drawings by Art YoungArt YoungArthur "Art" Young was an American cartoonist and writer. He is most famous for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left wing political magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917.-Early Years:...
. Frontispiece by Hugo GellertHugo GellertHugo Gellert was a Hungarian-American illustrator and muralist. A committed radical, much of Gellert's work is agitational in nature and distinctive in style, considered by some art critics as among the best political work of the first half of the 20th Century.-Early years:Hugo Gellert was born...
. Forward 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 RevolutionRussian Revolution of 1917The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917...
. Series Editor was Jerome Davis.
- 91. H.N. BrailsfordH. N. BrailsfordHenry Noel Brailsford was the most prolific British left-wing journalist of the first half of the 20th century.The son of a Methodist preacher, he was born in Yorkshire and educated in Scotland, at the High School of Dundee...
, 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, Soviet Russia and Her Neighbors. (November 1927)
- 95. Julius F. Hecker, Religion Under the Soviets.
- 96. Avrahm YarmolinskyAvrahm YarmolinskyAvrahm Yarmolinsky was an author, translator and the husband of Babette Deutsch.Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library for roughly three decades...
, The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities Under the Soviets. (1938) - 97. Anna J. Haines, Health Work in Soviet Russia. (March 1928)
- 98. Jessica SmithJessica Smith (editor)Jessica Smith was an American editor and activist.Daughter of the painter Walter Granville-Smith of New York, Jessica Granville-Smith, as she was known in her early life, graduated from Swarthmore College and championed women's suffrage...
, 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 DellFloyd DellFloyd Dell was an American author and critic.-Biography:Floyd Dell was born in Barry, Illinois on June 28, 1887....
. (August 1927) - 114. Grace Scribner, An American Pilgrimage: Portions of the Letters of Grace Scribner. L. Winifred, editor. (1927)
- 115. Edward BellamyEdward BellamyEdward Bellamy was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000. He was a very influential writer during the Gilded Age of United States history.-Early life:...
, Looking Backward. - 116. William MorrisWilliam MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
, News from Nowhere. - 117. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle.
- 118. Ivan Cankar, Yerney's Justice. Translated by Louis AdamicLouis AdamicLouis Adamic was a Slovenian American author and translator.- Biography :Adamic was born at Praproče Mansion in Praproče near Grosuplje, in what is now Slovenia...
. (1926) - 119. M.H. Hedges, Dan Minturn.
- 120. R.W. PostgateRaymond PostgateRaymond William Postgate was an English socialist, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist and gourmet.-Early life:...
, Out of the Past.
Great Books Made Easy
- 141. Charles DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
, The Descent of Man. Summarized by Newell R. Tripp. - 142. Ernst HaeckelErnst HaeckelThe "European War" became known as "The Great War", and it was not until 1920, in the book "The First World War 1914-1918" by Charles à Court Repington, that the term "First World War" was used as the official name for the conflict.-Research:...
, The Riddle of the Universe. Summarized by Vance RandolphVance RandolphVance Randolph was a famous folklorist who studied the folklore of the Ozarks in particular. He wrote a number of books on topics including the Ozarks, Little Blue Books, and juvenile fiction....
. - 143. Henry Thomas BuckleHenry Thomas BuckleHenry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, author of an unfinished History of Civilization.- Biography :...
, History of Civilization in England. Summarized by Clement WoodClement WoodClement Richardson Wood was an American writer.He mainly wrote poetry, but he also wrote Tom Sawyer Grows Up, a sequel to Twain's work....
. - 144. W.E.H. LeckyWilliam Edward Hartpole LeckyWilliam Edward Hartpole Lecky, OM was an Irish historian.-Early life:Born at Newtown Park, near Dublin, he was the eldest son of John Hartpole Lecky, a landowner....
, History of European Morals. Summarized by Clement Wood. - 145. John William DraperJohn William DraperJohn William Draper was an American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian, and photographer. He is credited with producing the first clear photograph of a female face and the first detailed photograph of the Moon...
, 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 [pseudonym 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 MolnárFerenc MolnárLanguageFerenc Molnár was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. His Americanized name was Franz Molnar...
, 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. ShielM. P. ShielMatthew Phipps Shiel was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name....
, 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.
- VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
, The Best of All Possible Worlds: Tales and Romances. Introduction by Clarence DarrowClarence DarrowClarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks and defending John T...
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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, Who's Obscene?
- James T. FarrellJames T. FarrellJames Thomas Farrell was an American novelist. One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and into a television miniseries in 1979...
, 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 LondonMeyer LondonMeyer London was an American politician from New York City. He was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress.-Early years:...
. - 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 BrounHeywood BrounHeywood Campbell Broun, Jr. was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and...
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 TippettTom TippettThomas Tippett was an English footballer.-Playing career:Tippett played for Twizzell United, Middlesbrough, Craghead United , Newcastle United and after having trials with Stoke City and Grimsby Town joined Doncaster Rovers and then Rochdale...
, 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.
External links
- Vanguard Press archival finding aid, Columbia University, New York City; retrieved January 30, 2010
- Evelyn Shrifte Collection Relating to Vanguard Press: Finding Aid, Syracuse UniversitySyracuse UniversitySyracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
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