Journalism, Labor Leaders, Activists, & Social Reformers, US & Canadian Literary Biography, News & Media Biography
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Overview
By the end of the 1930s, radical novelist and journalist Josephine Herbst (1892-1969) was widely regarded as one of the most important women writers in America. Yet she died in almost total obscurity. In this original literary biography, Elinor Langer masterfully untangles the mysteries of Herbst's turbulent life and career, revealing the political and personal truths that Herbst herself could never divulge.She was one of the most conspicuous yet overlooked radical feminists and acclaimed novelists of the 1920s and 1930s.This is her story.
Book Details
Published
June 12, 1984
Publisher
Boston : Little, Brown, c1984.
Pages
384
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780316513999