| Categories | literary magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | monthly |
| Founder | George Jean Nathan Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser, and James Branch Cabell |
| First issue | November 1932 |
| Final issue | May 1937 |
| Company | The American Spectator, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The American Spectator was a monthly literary magazine[1] which made its first monthly appearance in November 1932. It was edited by George Jean Nathan, though Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser,[2] and James Branch Cabell were also listed as joint editors.[3] The original editors left the publication in 1935, after which the paper continued monthly publication under new editors until October 1936. The American Spectator lasted another six months on a bimonthly before folding altogether.[4]
Sherwood Anderson first published his short story entitled Brother Death in this journal.[1] In 1933, the journal published a discussion, including some humor that not everyone recognized, on the Jewish question.[3][5]
- ^ a b Walter B. Rideout, Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America: v. 2, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, p. 172 [1]
- ^ R. Baird Schuman, Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2002, p. 378 [2]
- ^ a b Linda Ben-Zvi, Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times, OUP USA, 2005, p. 167 [3]
- ^ Keith Newlin, A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2003 [4]
- ^ On Dreiser's anti-Semitism see Donald Pizer, Theodore Dreiser: Interviews, University of Illinois Press, 2005, p.335 [5]; Gary Levine, The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature 1864-1939 (Literary Criticism & Cultural Theory: Outstanding Dissertations), Routledge, 2002, p. 75 [6]
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