Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965 (Personal Name)

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Contemporary authors online, via Literature resource center WWW site, Jan. 16, 2019 (Joseph Freeman; born October 7, 1897, in the Ukraine, Russia; died August 9, 1965; Journalist, editor, poet, and author; Freeman was a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in both Paris and London from 1920 to 1921, and worked on the editorial staff of the Liberator for three years. A socialist from the age of seventeen, Freeman joined the staff of the Soviet news agency Tass in 1925 and worked part-time with them until 1931. After co-founding New Masses in 1926, Freeman edited the journal during the thirties. In 1933, he published the first American anti-Nazi pamphlet and, later, helped found American anti-Nazi organizations. Freeman was co-founder and co-editor, from 1934 to 1936, of Partisan Review. He was the author of several volumes of poetry and numerous books on history, politics, and Marxist criticism, including Voices of October, a full-length study of Soviet art, literature, and film, and Dollar Diplomacy: A Study of American Imperialism)