Author: Wald, Alan M.
Title: Exiles from a Future Time : The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
Description: Chapel Hill [NC], Univ.of North Carolina Press, (2002). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xvii,412 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Wald offers a comprehensive history and reconsideration of the U.S. literary left in the mid-twentieth century. Recovering the central role Marxist-influenced writers played in fiction, poetry, theater, and literary criticism, he explores the lives and work of figures including Richard Wright, Muriel Rukeyser, Mike Gold, Claude McKay, Tillie Olsen, and Meridel Le Sueur" - publisher's description.

Keywords: American Literary History, United States, Communist Party, Radicalism, Radical Writers, Left Politics, Political, Socialist Socialism,