author
Adriana Spadoni
1879–1953
A California-born novelist and socialist writer, she moved through the literary and political worlds of the early 20th century with sharp curiosity and a strong social conscience. Her fiction includes The Noise of the World, The Swing of the Pendulum, and Mrs. Phelps' Husband.
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The swing of the pendulum
by Adriana Spadoni
The noise of the world
by Adriana Spadoni
About the author
Born in San Francisco in 1879, Adriana Spadoni was an American writer whose work ranged from fiction to shorter political and literary pieces. Public-domain library records identify her as a socialist novelist, and major book catalogs preserve several of her best-known novels from the 1920s.
Her books include The Noise of the World (1921), The Swing of the Pendulum (1924), and Mrs. Phelps' Husband (1924). The surviving record around her is fairly sparse, but her writing still points to a lively engagement with modern life, relationships, and the social questions of her time.
She was later known as Adriana Spadoni Turner after marrying journalist and author John Kenneth Turner. She died in 1953, leaving behind a body of work that remains accessible through digital libraries and archive collections.