Meridel Le Sueur

Meridel Le Sueur Pioneered Women’s Stories on the WPA

December 7, 2009

In the 1930s a young Meridel Le Sueur was living in Minnesota and writing about how desperate poverty pushed law-abiding women across the line of… Read More »Meridel Le Sueur Pioneered Women’s Stories on the WPA

Many Voices Sounding from the 1930s

October 20, 2009

This post honors the range of voices that emerged from the Writers’ Project. Marking crime novelist Jim Thompson’s 103rd birthday a few weeks ago, my… Read More »Many Voices Sounding from the 1930s