Louis Falstein papers, 1934-1937.

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Falstein, Louis.

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Louis Falstein immigrated from the Ukraine to the United States in 1925. He was a student at the Lewis Institute, Chicago, from 1930 to 1932. During World War II, he served with the United States Air Force. For several post war years he taught novel workshops and short-story writing at New York University and at the College of the City of New York. He published several novels in the 1950s and 1960s and a biography of Sholom Aleichem in 1968. From the description of Louis Falstein pap...