Johns, Orrick, 1887-1946
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JOHNS, ORRICK
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Johns, Orrick Glenday
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Author and activist Orrick Johns was born in St. Louis, where he worked as a journalist and critic. In 1919 he moved to New York and worked in advertising, and wrote a play; he travelled throughout Europe in 1926-1929. Johns became involved in labor unions and the Communist Party in California, and wrote for the Daily Worker in New York, although he later left the party and supervised the WPA Writer's Project. He published several books of poems, a novel, and a memoir. He committed suicide in 1946.
American poet and editor of the literary magazine the "Mirror"; member of the Communist Party.
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