author
Adriana Spadoni
1879–1953
A novelist and socialist writer from San Francisco, she published fiction that moved between private lives and larger social questions. Her best-known books include The Noise of the World and The Swing of the Pendulum, with shorter work also appearing in The Masses.
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The noise of the world
by Adriana Spadoni
The swing of the pendulum
by Adriana Spadoni
About the author
Born in 1879 and later listed as an American socialist novelist, Adriana Spadoni wrote during the early decades of the twentieth century. Public-domain library records and author listings consistently connect her with novels including The Noise of the World and The Swing of the Pendulum.
Her work also appeared in The Masses, an important radical magazine of the period, which places her within a wider world of left-leaning literary and political debate. Some records identify her later as Adriana Spadoni Turner after her marriage to journalist and author John Kenneth Turner.
She died in 1953. Although she is not widely known today, her surviving books and periodical pieces suggest a writer interested in both individual experience and the social currents shaping modern life.