Waldo Frank

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Waldo Frank


Born
in Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States
August 25, 1889

Died
January 09, 1967

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Waldo David Frank was an American novelist, historian, political activist, and literary critic, who wrote extensively for The New Yorker and The New Republic during the 1920s and 1930s. Frank is best known for his studies of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture and his work is regarded as an intellectual bridge between the two continents.

A radical political activist during the years of the Great Depression, Frank delivered a keynote speech to the first congress of the League of American Writers and was the first chair of that organization. Frank broke with the Communist Party, USA in 1937 over its treatment of exiled Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, whom Frank met in Mexico in January of that year.

Average rating: 4.08 · 1,182 ratings · 84 reviews · 68 distinct works
Holiday

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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1923 — 5 editions
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Chalk Face

3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1924 — 8 editions
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America & Alfred Stieglitz ...

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Our America

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Birth Of A World: Bolivar I...

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1951 — 17 editions
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The Unwelcome Man

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SIMON BOLIVAR, NACIMIENTO D...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings4 editions
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Death and Birth of David Ma...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1934 — 4 editions
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Virgin Spain: Scenes from t...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1926 — 18 editions
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The Dark Mother

2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1920 — 20 editions
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“I am weary with whiteness. To rule, to be civilized and chaste; you do not know what weariness it is. My woman yearns toward me in hunger, I am spent. All the world waves in darkling circles about my white uprightness, I am spent.”
Waldo Frank, Holiday

“All the world's color: and I must hold my pride against the world. Pride is white. History is white. The Christ is white. Honor is white, and birthright. All else . . color.”
Waldo Frank, Holiday

“Sleep is a sure peace whose balm lies swiftly near and casts its magic even upon the day.”
Waldo Frank, Holiday

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