Adamič, Louis, 1899-1951
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Adamič, Louis, 1899-1951
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Adamič
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1899-1951
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Adamic, Louis, 1898-1951
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Adamic
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1898-1951
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Luj, Lojze 1898-1951
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Luj, Lojze 1898-1951
アダミック, ルイス
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アダミック, ルイス
Adamič, Alojz, 1899-1951
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1899-1951
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Political writer and literary figure.
Adamic was an author deeply concerned with American immigrants and their experiences in the "melting pot", and was the first editor of Commond Ground.
Social critic and writer.
Author Louis Adamic was born in Slovenia, and immigrated to the United States at the age of fourteen. He worked odd jobs in New York City, became a naturalized citizen and then a soldier, and settled in San Jose, California. He wrote fiction and translated Slavic works into English, eventually contributing stories and articles to American Mercury. His most characteristic works were about the immigrant's experience in America, combining memoir, journalism, and a political agenda to raise awareness of ethnic values and show the secondary consequences of immigration.
Louis Adamic (1899-1951) was born in 1898 in Slovenia and immigrated to the United States in 1913. He became a US citizen and served on the Western Front during World War I. After the war, he worked as a journalist and professional writer in work focused on the immigrant experience, publishing Dynamite (1930), which looked at class and labor violence; Laughing in the Jungle (1932), an autobiography; and The Native’s Return (1934), an account of his return to Yugoslavia (the research for which may have been that referred in the letters below). This account led to his appointment to the Executive Board of the Foreign Language Information Service. Adamic leaned left politically and his membership in organizations with known Communist sympathies led to surveillance by the FBI between 1941 and 1958 (see the Louis Adamic Collection in the Immigration History Research Center, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota). During the postwar period, Adamic criticized the rightward direction of US policy, publishing Dinner at the White House ” (1946). Adamic died under mysterious circumstances in 1951: he was found shot to death at his home in Milford, New Jersey.
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Authors, American
American fiction
Antisemitism
British Americans
Children of immigrants
Chinese Americans
Communism
Czech Americans
Danish Americans
Dutch Americans
Editors
Emigration and immigration law
Finnish Americans
French Americans
German Americans
Greek Americans
Hungarian Americans
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans
Jewish question
Labor and laboring classes
Lithuanian Americans
Male authors, American
Naturalization
Polish Americans
Refugees
Scottish Americans
Slovak Americans
Swedish Americans
Swiss Americans
Ukrainian Americans
World War, 1939-1945
Yugoslav Americans
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Slovenes
Americans
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