Harvey Swados

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name = Harvey Swados


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birthdate = 1920
birthplace = Buffalo, New York
deathdate = 1972
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = American
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genre = Naturalism
subject = ordinary people
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Harvey Swados (1920-1972) was a Jewish-American novelist and essayist. He was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of a doctor and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. Swados was a four-year veteran of the Merchant Marine during World War II and published his first novel in 1955.

He also taught at Sarah Lawrence and the University of Massachusetts."Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn" (New York: New York Review Book Classics, 2004) 'Introduction']

Swados's 1959 essay for "Esquire", "Why Resign from the Human Race?", has often been said to have inspired the formation of the Peace Corps.Fact|date=April 2008

He died in 1972 of a brain hemorrhage. [cite web|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946541,00.html|title= September Song|accessdate= 2008-04-22|author= R. Z. Sheppard|date= 1975-03-24|publisher= Time]

Published works

Novels
*"Out Went the Candle" (New York: Viking, 1955)
*"False Coin" (Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1959)
*"The Will" (Cleveland: World, 1963)
*"Standing Fast" (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970)
*"Celebration" (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975)
*"The Unknown Constellations" (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)

Short story collections
*"On the Line" (Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1957)
*"Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn" (Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1960)
*"A Story for Teddy and Others" (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965)
*"Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn: The Collected Stories of Harvey Swados". Introduction by Robin Swados. (New York: Viking Penguin, 1986)

Essays
*"A Radical’s America" (Boston: Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1962)
*"A Radical at Large: American Essays" (London: Hart-Davis, 1968).

Edited works
*"Years of Conscience: The Muckrakers" (Cleveland: Meridian, 1962)
*"The American Writer and the Great Depression" (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966)

Children’s literature/Translations
*"Agouhanna," by Claude Aubry. Translated from the French by Harvey Swados. Illustrated by Grey Cohoe. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971)
*"Bim, The Little Donkey," by Albert Lamorisse. Translated from the French by Harvey and Bette Swados (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971)
*"The Mystery of the Spanish Silver Mine" (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971)

Biography
*"Standing Up for the People: The Life and Work of Estes Kefauver" (New York: Dutton, 1972)

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