May
17,2023
In
1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by
another two years later. They called on “the hundreds of poets, novelists,
dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists” to discuss the “rapid
crumbling of capitalism” and the beckoning of another war. They were electric
events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the
public with more than a thousand turned away.
