Writers Take Sides. Letters about the war in Spain from 418 American authors.

First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 82, [iv]. Wrappers. One page address to the Writers of America by Donald Ogden Stewart. 237 of the letters are printed, the overwhelming majority against Franco and Fascism. Seven letters are put in the Neutral ? section. Only one, by Gertrude Atherton, is in the Against section, i.e. pro-Franco. In the Anti-Franco section there are statements by John Steinbeck, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway , Pearl Buck, Humphrey Cobb, Countee Cullen, Theodore Dreiser, Floyd Dell, William Faulkner, Babette Deutsch, Dashiell Hammett, Edna Ferber, Langston Hughes, John Gould Fletcher, Rockwell Kent, Hildegarde Flanner, Marianne Moore, James Weldon Johnson, Katherine Ann Porter, Stanley J. Kunitz, Upton Sinclair, Edgar Lee Masters, Irwin Shaw, Clifford Odets, I.F. Stone, Robert Nathan, Thornton Wilder, Carl Van Doren, William Carlos Williams, Stephen Vincent Benet, Richard Wright etc. Robinson Jeffers and E.E. Cummings contribute to the Neutral? section.Four appendices, including Aims of the Spanish Loyalist Government, Aims of the Franco Junta and Bibliography.Spine rubbed. Covers a bit darkened at the edges. Very good.…