Le Sueur, Meridel

Meridel Le Sueur was born February 22, 1900, in Murray, Iowa. She did not finish high school, dropping out before the First World War. She began writing at the age of fifteen. Largely self-taught, Miss Le Sueur attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She came to know John Reed and met Theodore Dreiser and Edna St. Vincent Millay at Mabel Dodge's literary salon. She won acclaim in 1927 for her story Persephone and again in 1934 for The Horse. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. She died November 14, 1996, in Hudson, Wisconsin.Sources:Something About the Author V. 6:143 http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/meridel-obit.html.

From the description of Meridel Le Sueur Papers 1947-1951. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 462885723

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