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Floyd Dell
1887–1969
A lively voice from the bohemian and radical literary world of early 20th-century America, he wrote fiction and criticism that explored changing ideas about love, politics, and personal freedom. His work captures the restless energy of Chicago and Greenwich Village in a time of cultural upheaval.
7 Audiobooks
Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism
by Floyd Dell
Sweet and Twenty: A Comedy in One Act
by Floyd Dell
The Briary Bush: A Novel
by Floyd Dell
King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays
by Floyd Dell
Were You Ever a Child?
by Floyd Dell
An unmarried father : A novel
by Floyd Dell
Upton Sinclair : A study in social protest
by Floyd Dell
About the author
Born in Barry, Illinois, on June 28, 1887, Floyd Dell became an American editor, critic, novelist, playwright, and poet. He grew up in Iowa, later moved to Chicago, and built an early reputation in journalism and literary criticism before becoming part of the wider national literary scene.
Dell is especially remembered for his connection to the radical and bohemian culture of the 1910s and 1920s. Encyclopaedia Britannica describes him as a novelist and radical journalist whose fiction examined changing attitudes toward sex and politics, and he is also closely associated with influential little magazines and with the literary life of Chicago and Greenwich Village.
He wrote across genres, but his reputation rests largely on his novels, criticism, and memoir writing, which offer a vivid picture of a changing America. Floyd Dell died on July 23, 1969, in Bethesda, Maryland, leaving behind work that still interests readers drawn to literary modernism, social change, and the spirited debates of his era.