I (miker) asked:
"In the 1930s, were there any other writers that wrote
hardboiled Proletariat novels besides Dos Passos and
Steinbeck?"
Marianne answered:
You might want to investigate James T Farrell, Thomas Wolfe,
Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Michael Gold, maybe Sinclair
Lewis though really too sentimental, Upton Sinclair,
Josephine Herbst, Langston Hughes (wrote novels as well as
his poetry), Richard Wright?...probably a lot of others now
forgotten - and certainly by me.
************* I've read Faulkner, Caldwell, Wolfe, and
Sinclair. SANCTUARY and TOBACCO ROAD and LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL
didn't seem to Proletariat oriented, but those are the only
ones I've read. No telling about the others. I've read
Sinclair's THE JUNGLE and it's definitely Proletariat, but I
think it's way before the 1930s. Just a guess would put it
around 1910. I don't know what he wrote in the 1930s. I need
to check on that. Somewhere in that time frame he ran for
governor of California, didn't he? Hallas is satirizing his
economic plan in YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES
UP.
I'm vaguely familiar with Farrell, Lewis, and Hughes. Lewis
wrote those two big social satires in the early twenties,
BABBITT and MAIN STREET. I've got Farrell's STUDS LONIGAN
trilogy waiting for me on the shelf. I'm not aware of them
being Proletariat, but I can't say for sure.
I don't know a darn thing about Michael Gold and Josephine
Herbst. I'll check into them.
I've read Richard Wright, too, but only NATIVE SON. I'm not
sure what else he's done, but off the top of my head I would
say he came a little later than the Thirties. I read NATIVE
SON in high school. Must have made a big impression. I still
remember the really gory parts.
Thank you for the suggestions, Marianne.
miker
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