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League of American Writers Writers Take Sides

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09640.109 Author/Creator: League of American Writers Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: May 1938 Pagination: 82 p. : Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy

One edition of "Writers Take Sides" published by the League of the American Writers dated May 1938. Contains 418 authors' perspectives on the Spanish Civil War. Includes excerpts from Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Pearl S. Buck, Earl Browder, Langston Hughes and other novelists, essayists, and poets.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Browder, Earl, 1891-1973
Buck, Pearl S., 1892-1973
Hammet, Dashiell, 1864-1961

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