Meridel Le Sueur
Meridel Le Sueur ( born February 22, 1900 in Murray, Iowa, † November 14, 1996, Hudson, Wisconsin) was an American writer and suffragist.
Life
Born as Meridel Wharton, she took her mother's name, Arthur Le Sueur, a lawyer and former Socialist mayor of Minot, North Dakota the second man to.
Inter alia, through the political commitment of their parents at Industrial Workers of the World and Mayme " Marian " Lucy ( Meridel Le Sueur mother ) support for the U.S. women's rights movement, it was heavily influenced in his early years.
Le Sueur was enthusiastic about poems and stories they heard of Indian women. She broke off from high school and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Some years she worked in Hollywood as an actress, stuntwoman, writer and journalist. She wrote, inter alia, for liberal newspapers about unemployment, migrant workers and the struggle of Native Americans to autonomy.
Like other writers of her time, such as John Steinbeck, Nelson Algren and Jack Conroy, Le Sueur wrote about the struggles of the working class during the Great Depression in the 30s. She has published articles in New Masses, American Mercury, The New Republic, Yale Review, and The American Mercury.
Her most famous books are North Star Country (1945 ), the story of the people in Minnesota, and the novel The Girl, which was written in the 1930s but not published until 1978. In the 1950s, Le Sueur was a Communist during the McCarthy era on the " black list " and held principally with writing children's books about water. Perceive in public she's only back in the 1970s, as a feminist activist who was celebrated for her writings about women's rights.
In her later years, Le Sueur was living in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was a few years married to Harry Rice ( Yasha Rubonoff ) with whom she had two children.