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2 unusual facts about Tess Slesinger


Tess Slesinger

In James T. Farrell's novel Sam Holman (not published until 1994), there are thinly-veiled fictional portraits of many prominent New York intellectuals (including Meyer Schapiro, Lionel Trilling, Elinor Rice, and Edmund Wilson), the character of Frances Dunsky is based on Slesinger.

Her name was among those included on the letter denouncing the Dewey Commission's investigation of the Moscow trials, and she also endorsed the CP-initiated call for the Third American Writers' Congress in 1939.



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