Showing posts with label writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writers. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Writers #15: John Dos Passos, Theodore Drieser and Samuel Ornitz

American writer Theodore Dreiser (center) joins John Dos Passos (left) and Samuel Ornitz in New York City on Nov. 12, 1931. They had returned from Harlan County where they and other writers investigated the Eastern Kentucky coal fields on behalf of striking coal miners. Via.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Writers #13: James Thurber

James Thurber works on one of his cartoons. As his eyesight failed, Thurber eventually had to work using white chalk on black paper. The image was then photographed and the negative was used for publication.