Jack Conroy

Born: 12/05/1898   Moberly
Died: 02/28/1990
Parents: Thomas E. and Elizabeth Jane Conroy

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
A World to Win
- Introduction by Douglas Wixson
Non Fiction University of Illinois Press 2000
Worker-Writer in America
- Biography by Douglas Wixson
Non Fiction University of Illinois Press 1994
Weed King & Other Stories Fiction L. Hill 1985
Jack Conroy Reader Adult B. Franklin 1980
Writers in Revolt : The Anvil Anthology
- Editor with Curt Johnson
Fiction Hill 1973
Any Place But Here
- Expanded version of They Seek A City
Children Hill & Wang 1966
Sam Patch, The High, Wide and Handome Jumper
- Co-Author with Arna Bontemps
Children Houghton-Mifflen 1951
Midland Humor : A Harvest of Fun and Folklore
- Editor
Fiction Current Bks 1947
Slappy Hooper, The Wonderful Sign Painter
- Co-Author with Arna Bontemps
Children Houghton-Mifflin 1946
They Seek a City
- Co-Author with Arna Bontemps about migrant workers
Non Fiction Doubleday 1945
The Fast Sooner Hound
- Co-Author with Arna Bontemps
Children Houghton-Mifflin 1942
A World to Win
- A novel about migrant workers
Fiction Covici, Friede Publishers 1935
The Disinherited : a novel of the 1930s Fiction Hill & Wang 1933
Unrest : The Rebel Poets Anthology
- Editor with Ralph Cheyney
Poetry Arthur Stockwell, Ltd., Braithwaite and Miller, Ltd., Harrison 1929

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Skills:
Author

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Arts (M.A.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1940

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Lecturer at Universities
- Also began his autobiography
Moberly 1966
Senior Editor The New Standard Encyclopedia Chicago 1946 -1966
Collected industrial folklore
- Assigned to Black history project with Arna Bontemps
Federal Writers Project 1939
Editor with Nelson Algren The New Anvil Chicago 1939
Founder and Editor
- The most succesful proletarian literary magazine of its time
The Anvil 1935 -1936
Editor
- Rebel Poets were a group associated with the Industrial Workers of America
The Rebel Poet 1931 -1932
Various factory jobs
- 1920s
Des MoinesDetroit,Toledo

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