Writers Take Sides: Letters about the War in Spain from 418 American Authors
Foreword by the Editorial Committee: Millen Brand, Dorothy Brewster, Harry Carlisle & Groff Conklin. New York: League of American Writers, (1938). 12mo. Wraps. 82 p. 1st edition. [36876]
Contains the statements of over 200 American writers in support of the Spanish Republic while Gertrude Atherton expresses the wish that Franco "will mop up the Communists, and send home, with tail between legs, all those gullible Americans who enlisted to save 'Spanish democracy.'" Supporters of the Republic include Sherwood Anderson, Jack Conroy, Countee Cullen, Floyd Dell, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Vardis Fisher, Elsa Gidlow, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Rockwell Kent, John Howard Lawson, Alain Locke, Marianne Moore, Clifford Odets, Katherine Anne Porter, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Genevieve Taggard, Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Richard Wright, et al.
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