Jerre Mangione, 4th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Jerre Mangione

Document Type

Featured Participant

Festival Date

10-7-1981

Location

Rooms 148-150, Webb Center

Author/Artist Bio

Like everyone else, writers needed to eat during the Depression, and the federal government put more than six thousand of them to work in what W.H. Auden called "one of the noblest and most absurd undertakings ever attempted by any state." Jerre Mangione, former national coordinating editor of the Federal Writers' Project (1935- 1943), will tell the story of this exciting and controversial branch of the WPA and relate it to the current economic conditions facing today's creative writers.

Mangione is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction, including the best-selling memoirs Mount Allegro and An Ethnic at Large. His Wednesday afternoon talk comes from his book The Dream and the Deal, hailed by Alfred Kazin as "one of the best social histories of American writers in our time."

Description

Jerre Mangione spoke on "Should Writers be on the Government Payroll? The Saga of the Federal Writers' Project," at 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 7, in Rooms 148-150, Webb Center.

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