Leane Zugsmith
Leane Zugsmith (18 January 1903 – 13 October 1969) was an American writer.[1][2]
Biography
Leane Zugsmith was born in Louisville, Kentucky on 18 January 1903 to Albert Zugsmith and Gertrude Appel.[3] She lived in New York City, where she became a leftist journalist,[4] proletarian writer and activist.[3] She and playwright Carl Randau formed a salon, where she entertained guests such as Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Heywood Broun, and Louis Kronenberger. She married Randau in 1940.[3][5] She later moved to small-town New England.[3]
She wrote novels and short stories.[6] Her novel All Victories Are Alike is about a disillusioned newspaper columnist. The Summer Soldier is about a civil rights committee that investigates allegations of violence against workers in a southern town.
American Naturalist writer Theodore Dreiser had a copy of Never Enough in his library.[7]
Her younger brother, Albert Zugsmith, was an American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s.
Bibliography
- All Victories Are Alike (1929)
- Goodbye and Tomorrow (1931)
- Never Enough: A Novel (1932)
- The Reckoning (1934)
- A Time to Remember (1936)
- Home is Where You Hang Your Childhood and Other Stories (1937)
- L is for labor: A glossary of labor terms (1937)
- The Summer Soldier (1938)
- Hard times with easy payments: Fifteen short stories from "P M " (1941)
- The Setting Sun of Japan (1942, with husband Carl Randau)
- The Visitor (1946, with husband Carl Randau)
References
- ↑ Antler, Joyce (1990). America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers. Beacon Press. pp. 8–9. ISBN 978-0807036075. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Wald, Alan M. (1994). Writing from the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics. Verso Books. p. 78. ISBN 978-1859849064. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 Ravitz, Abe C. (1992). Leane Zugsmith: Thunder on the Left. International Publishers. ISBN 978-0717807024. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Hapke, Laura (2001). Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction. Rutgers University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0813528809. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Hammett, Dashiell (2002). Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett. Counterpoint. p. 268. ISBN 978-1582430812. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Riess, Curt (1944). They Were There: The Story of World War II and How it Came About. Ayer Co Pub. p. 656. ISBN 978-0836920291. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Mulligan, Roark. "Theodore Dreiser's Private Library". University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Retrieved April 25, 2012.