Among the American avant-garde of the early twentieth century, Floyd Dell played a distinctive role. A boy from the Midwest who rose to influence in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and in the heyday of Greenwich Village radicalism, he became a celebrated novelist, critic, editor...
The first full-length biography of the celebrated novelist, critic, editor (of The Masses), poet, and playwright, who was both central to radical culture in the early 20th century and profoundly skeptical of it.