Waldo David Frank

Waldo David Frank (August 25, 1889– January 9 1967) [http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?letter=y&lastname=FRANK&firstname=WALDO&ssn=031-26-4585&birth=25+Aug+1889&death=Jan+1967&middlename=&namesiffix=] was an American author and scholar. He is most well known for his studies of Spanish and Latin American literature.

Frank served as chairman of the First Americans Writers Congress (April 26-27, 1935) and became the first president of the League of American Writers.

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*"The Unwelcome Man" (1917)
*"Our America" (1919)
*"The Dark Mother" (1920)
*"City Block" (1922)
*"Rehab" (1922)
*"Holiday" (1923)
*"Chalk Face" (1924)
*"The Rediscovery of America" (1929)
* "South of Us" (published in Spanish as "America Hispaña") (1931)
*"The Death and Birth of David Markand" (1934)
*"Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of his Peoples" (1951)
*"Bridgehead: The Drama of Israel" (1957)
*"Rediscovery of Man" (1958)
*"The Prophetic Island: A Portrait of Cuba" (1961)
*"Memoirs" (posthumous, 1973)

Well-known and influential in the nineteen-teens, twenties and thirties, for the remaining years of his life Frank was virtually ignored in America. His career can be said to have begun with his contributions to "The Seven Arts", an important little magazine which published twelve issues from November 1916 to October 1917. With the determined pacifism of its contributors (which also included Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, and James Oppenheim, the founder and general editor of the magazine) came a cessation of funds which led to its demise.

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Frank was married in January 1917 to Margaret Naumburg, a prominent postgraduate pupil of John Dewey who developed techniques which later became known as art therapy.

External links

* [http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9323817 Encyclopaedia Britannica: Waldo David Frank]