Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1936.

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Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1936.

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Correspondence to Theodore Dreiser from Orrick Johns, Director, and Francis Gahan, Local Chairman, Federal Writers' Project, New York.

3 items (4 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Federal Writers' Project (N.Y.).

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Gahan, Francis

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Johns, Orrick, 1887-1946

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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 19...