Earth Publishing Company records, 1929-1977 (bulk 1929-1932).

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Earth Publishing Company records, 1929-1977 (bulk 1929-1932).

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Correspondence, business records, production materials, and other material relating to the publication of Earth, a leftist journal of literature and the arts founded and edited by Joseph Niver and published in Wheaton, Ill., and Salem, Ore., between April 1930 and July 1932. Includes correspondence with Jack Conroy, James T. Farrell, Romain Rolland, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Townshend.

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Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

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Author b. 1899, John Wesley, in coal mining camp near Moberly, Mo.; proletarian writer of the 30's, activist involved in labor unions and worker's rights. Published in Northern Lights and New Masses; gained recognition with Disinherited. From the description of Papers, 1947-1981. (Southern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 13347087 Poet, editor of The Spider. From the description of Letters, to Joseph A. Labadie, 1924-1928. (University of Michigan). World...

Earth Publishing Company

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Rolland, Romain

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French author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Paris], to an unidentified editor or publisher, 1906 Nov. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872184 French communist intellectual. From the description of Romain Rolland miscellaneous papers, 1932-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868035 Romain Rolland was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, an idealist who was deeply involved with pacifism; Lucien Price was an American no...

Niver, Joseph

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Joseph Niver started a small literary/radical journal, Earth, in Wheaton, Illinois, in 1930. In 1931, production of the journal was moved to Salem, Oregon. The stock market crash had a deleterious effect on subscriptions, and it ceased publication in 1932 after thirteen issues. In 1977, Niver published Earth: A History, in which he tells about the inception and production of the journal, and which include facsimiles of the first three volumes. Niver, along with his wife Betty, enjoyed a close fr...

Townshend, Frank, 1887-

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Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979

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James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was an Irish-American novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet, and literary critic. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Chicago and published his first short story in 1929. He is best known for his Studs Lonigan trilogy and for his A note on Literary Criticism, in which he described two types of the American Marxist character. From the guide to the James T. Farrell Collection, 1953-1961, (Special Colle...