In
1922 the left-wing journal, The Liberator,
was taken over by Robert Minor and the
American Communist Party. Many of the
people who contributed to the journal such as Michael
Gold and John Sloan were unhappy with
this development and in 1926, they started their own journal, the
New Masses.
Over the years most of the well-known left-wing writers and artists
produced material for the magazine. This included Max
Eastman, Upton Sinclair, Sherwood
Anderson, Erskine Caldwell, Richard
Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Alvah
Bessie, James Agee, Ralph
Ellison, Langston Hughes, John
Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, Theodore
Dreiser, Floyd Dell, Art
Young, William Gropper, Albert
Hirschfeld, Carl Sandburg, Waldo
Frank and Eugene O'Neill. The New
Masses ceased publication in 1948.
New Masses (November, 1928)
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