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In the heyday of the American avant-garde and Greenwich Village bohemianism, in the early years of the twentieth century, Floyd Dell was one of the scene's brightest lights. "The prose laureate of Greenwich Village," some called him, "the most talented of literary young men." In a galaxy of high-spirited artists, writers, and playwrights, no figure was more colorful and brilliant. Douglas Clayton's biography of Floyd Dell traces the life of a boy from the Midwest who rose to influence in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and moved on to New York to become a celebrated novelist, critic, editor, poet, and playwright. Beyond his literary pursuits, Dell was also a notorious bohemian, proponent of free love, and champion of feminism, progressive education, socialism, and Freudianism. When he was editing The Masses, perhaps the best radical magazine ever, Dell once famously remarked that it "stood for fun, truth, beauty, realism, freedom, peace, feminism, revolution." So did Dell's own life. Yet, as Douglas Clayton shows, while Dell was central to radical culture, he was also profoundly skeptical of it. He was a leader among the cultural rebels while also a shrewd satirist of their countl

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Author

Clayton, Douglas

Publisher

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566635196

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14